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 i. Batrachocephalus mino (Ham. Buch.). 



Agcneiosus mino Hamilton Buchanan, Fishes of the Ganges, 1822, p. 159. 

 Batrachocephalus ageneiosus Bleeker, Nat. & Geneesk. Arch. Ned. Ind. Ill (2). 



1846, p. 176. 

 Batrachocephalus micropogon Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr. I. Siluri, 1858, 



p. II9< _ Atl. Ichth. II. 1862, p. 48. 



Batrachocephalus mino Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. V. 1864, p. 182. 

 Batrachocephalus mino Day, Fishes of India 4. 1878 1888, p. 468. 



Fig. 143. Batrachocephalus mino (Ham. Buch.) X 4 /5- 



B. 5; D. i. 7; A. 1921; P. I. 9; V. 6. 



Height 4^/2 5 head 3 2 /- 3 4 / 5 ; eye 5. Headshields forming a 

 cross, with the surface corrugated. Occipital process longer than 

 broad at its base, its posterior end broadly emarginate and recei- 

 ving the granular semicrescentic basal bone of the dorsal spine. 

 Height of dorsal nearly 3 / 4 of length of head, its spine denticu- 

 lated at both edges, as long as postorbital part of head. Base 

 of adipose fin 2 / 3 of that of dorsal, more than 4 times in its 

 distance from that fin. Height of anal much less than that of 

 dorsal. Pectoral spine denticulated at both edges, about equal 

 to or slightly longer than the dorsal one. Caudal deeply forked, 

 the upper lobe the longer. Silvery, dark brown above. Fins 

 yellowish, powdered with dark. Length about 250 mm. 



Nomen in dig. : Ikan manjong kodok, Ikan utik (Malay.). 



Habitat: Java (Batavia!, Surabaya); Sumatra (Palembang!); 

 Borneo (river Kapuas, Sarawak). Burma and British India. 



In sea, estuaries and tidal rivers. 



