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Key to the indo-australian species of 

 Solenostomus. 



1. Caudal peduncle rather higher than long. Membrane of 

 caudal beginning very near or almost close to 2. dorsal 



and anal , . 5. cyanopterus p. 26. 



2. Caudal peduncle longer than high. Membrane of caudal 

 beginning at a distance from 2. dorsal and anal of more 



than half the length of the base of these fins S. paradoxus p. 27. 



3. Caudal peduncle about thrice longer than high. Mem- 

 brane of caudal beginning at a distance from 2. dorsal 



and anal, which is longer than base of these fins . . . S. armatus p. 28. 



i. Solenostomus cyanopterus Blkr. [Fig. 13, p. 25]. 



Solenostoma paradoxum Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie III. 1852, p. 308 



(nee Pallas). 

 Solenostoma paradoxum Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Genootsch. XXV. 1853, Bijdr. Tros- 



kieuwige Visschen p. 29 (nee Pallas). 



Solenostoma cyanopterus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie VI. 1854, p. 507. 

 Solenostoma cyanopterus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie VIII. 1855, -p. 434. 

 Solenostoma paradoxus Kaup, Cat. Lophobranchiate Fish London 1856, p. 2 (p.p.) ! ). 

 Solenichthys cyanopterus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. II. 1865, p. 183 



ibid. p. 273. 



Solenostoma cyanopterum Playfair & Gunther, Fishes Zanzibar 1 866, p. 137. 

 Solenostomus cyanopterus A. Dumeril, Hist. nat. Poiss. II. 1870, p. 497- 

 Solenostomus Bleekeri A. Dumeril, ibid. p. 498. 



Solenostoma cyanopterum Gunther, .Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p.. 151. 

 Solenostoma cyanopterum Klunzinger, Abhandl. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien XXI. 1871, 



p. 654. 



Solenostomichthys cyanopterus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. IV. 1873, p. 126. 

 Solenostomatichthys Bleekeri Bleeker, Enumeration Poiss. de Madagascar in: 



Recherch. s. 1. Faune de Madagascar Leide, 1875, P- 7 6 Verh. Akad. 



Amsterdam XVIII. 18771878, Poiss. de Maurice, p. 17. 

 Solenostomus Bleekeri Sauvage, Poissons in: Grandidier, Hist. nat. Madagascar 



XVI. 1 89 1, -p. 503. 



Solenostomus cyanopteriis Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXIV. 1901, p. 4. 

 Solenostomus cyanopterus Jordan Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. XXIII. 



(1903) 1905, p. 118. 

 Solenostoma cyanopterus Jungersen, Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skrifter K0benhavn 



(7) VIII. 5. 1910, p. 328. 

 Solenostomus cyanopterus Max Weber, Siboga-Expeditie, Fische 1913, p. 104. 



i) KAUP quotes as locality "sea of Hawaii" according to BLEEKER. This is 

 totally erroneous as BLEEKER gives for locality Wahai on the north coast of 

 Ceram. This misunderstanding is repeated in the papers by JORDAN & SNYDER, 

 by JORDAN & EVERMANN, by JORDAN & SEALE and by JORDAN, TANAKA and 

 SNYDER. 



