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8th, Qth or usually io th scale. Anus opposite to 12 th or 14 th , 

 usually to 13^ scale, situated between tips of ventrals or imme- 

 diately behind their end, about 2 scales before vertical through 

 first dorsal. Scales entire or somewhat sinuated, about 18 to 

 20 between first dorsal and head, a very large and rounded 

 one on interorbital space, behind it a longitudinal one on 

 nape. About 20 gillrakers on lower limb of first arch, the 

 longest about equal to half length of eye. Teeth in rather 

 broad bands on jaws, pterygoids, palatines and vomer. Sides 

 of head and lower surface of body silvery, not sharply defined 

 from the broad silvery lateral band, the upper part of which 

 shows an indistinct dark band. Above it the scales have broad 

 brown borders and brown points. Fins dusky, usually more 

 pronounced on hindborder of caudal; upper half of pectorals 

 often with blackish points. Upper surface of head more or less 

 blackish as also ventral border of lower jaw. Length 130 mm. 

 Habitat: Singapore; Pulu Weh!; Simalur!; Pulu Babi 

 (Telok Berandang!); Sumatra (Olehleh !, Pulu Pangang!, Trussan, 

 Padang, Eenkulen); Java (Samarang!/ Batavia); Bawean Island ; 

 Kawassang (Paternoster Islands!); Bali; Celebes (Makassar!, 

 Bonthain, Badjoa, Menado !) ; Flores (South coast!); Sumba 

 (South coast !) ; Timor ; Buton ! ; Ternate ; Ambon ! ; Kajoa ! ; Obi 

 major!; Banda!; Island Fau near Gebe ! ; Aru Islands !; Waigeu 

 (Saonek!); Goram Islands; New Guinea. Red Sea, Zanzibar, 

 Madagascar, Mauritius, Nicobars, Andamans, Pinang, Tonkin, 

 Philippines, New Caledonia (?), New Hebrides (?), Aneiteum (?). 



5. Atherina duodecimalis (C.V.) Blkr. 



? Atherina duodecimalis Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons, X. 1835, p. 458. 

 Atherina duodecimalis Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie II. 1851, p. 485. 

 Atherina duodecimalis Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. III. 1859 1861, p. 400. 

 ^.Atherina diwdecimalis Day, Fishes of India 4. 1878 1888, p. 345. 

 Atherina duodecimalis Sauvage, Hist. nat. Madagascar XVI. Poissons 1891, p. 406. 

 ? Atherina duodecimalis Bean & Weed, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Wash. 42, 1912, p. 596. 

 Atherina pinguis Max Weber, Siboga-Expeditie, Fische 1913, p. 135. 

 Atherina duodecimalis Max Weber, ibid, p. 136. 



Atherina duodecimalis de Beaufort, Bijdr. Dierkunde Afl. 19, Amsterdam 1913, p. 105. 

 Atherina temminckii de Beaufort, I.e. (p. p.). 



Atherina duodecimalis Max Weber, Revision indo-austr. Arten v. Atherina, Zoolog. 

 Mededeel. Mus. Leiden VI. 1921, p. 47. 



DVVVi; D 2 . II. 8(1.9); A. 11.9-12(13); P.I. 13-15; 

 L.I. 3538(40); L.tr.6. 



