334 

 i. Anabas testudineus (Bl.) [Fig. 86, pag. 333]. 



Anthias testudineus Bloch, Ausland. Fische VI. 1795, p. 121. 



Perca scandens Daldorff, Transact. Linn. Soc. III. 1797, p. 62. 



Amphiprion testudineus Bloch, Schneider, Syst. Ichthyol. 1801, p. 204. 



Atnphiprion scansor Bloch, Schneider, ibid. p. 570. 



Lutjanus testudo Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poissons IV. 1803, p. 235. 



Lutjanus scandens Lacepede, ibid. p. 239. 



Spams testudineus Shaw, Zool. IV. 1803, p. 471. 



Spar us scandens Shaw, ibid. p. 475. 



Anabas testudineus Cuvier, Regne Animal, cd. la. II. 1817, p. 310. 



Cojus cobojius Hamilton Buchanan, Fishes Ganges, 1822, p. 98 & 370. 



Anabas scandens Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poissons VII. 1831, p. 249. 



Anabas spinosus Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. II, 1834, pi. LXXXIX. fig. I. 



Anabas scandens Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal XVIII. 1850, p. 1064. 



Anabas scandens Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXIII. 1850, Bijdr. Kennis Visschcn 



met doolhofvormige kieuwen, p. 8. 

 Anabas variegatus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie II. 1851, p. 220 (after a 



drawing only). 



Anabas macroccphalus Bleeker, ibid. VII. 1854, p. 430. 

 Anabas oligolepis Bleeker, ibid. VIII. 1855, p. 161. 

 Anabas scandens Bleeker, ibid. XIII. 1857, p. 329. 

 Anabas microcephalus Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. II. 1857, Achtste Bijdr. 



vischfauna Amboina, p. 58. 



Anabas scandens Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. III. 1861, p. 375. 

 Anabas macrocephalus Gunther, ibid. p. 376. 

 Anabas oligolepis Gunther, 1. c. 



Anabas testudineus Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1868, p. 259. 

 Anabas oligolepis Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1869, p. 521. 

 Anabas oligolepis Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IX. 1877, taD 395i fig- 5- Verh. Kon. 



Akad. Amsterdam XIX. 1879, Mem. Poissons pharyng. labyrinth, p. 5. 

 Anabas testudineus Bleeker, ibid. p. 7; Atl. ibid. tab. 396, fig. 2 & 3. 

 Anabas microcephalus Bleeker, ibid. p. 10; Atl. ibid. tab. 395, fig. 2. 

 Anabas scandens Day, Fishes of India 4. 1878 1888, p. 370. 

 Anabas scandens Vinciguerra, Ann. Museo Civico Geneva (2) IX. 1889 1890, p. 186. 

 Anabas scandens Reuvens, Notes Leyden Mus. XVI. N. 3 and 4, 1895, p. 146. 

 Anabas elongatus Reuvens, ibid. p. 147. 



Anabas scandens Steindachner, Abh. Senckenb. naturf. Gesellsch. XXV. 1901, p. 433. 

 Anabas scandens Smith, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. XXI. (1901) 1902, p. 170. 

 Anabas scandens Jordan & Scale, Bull. Bur. Fish. Wash. (1906) 1907, p. 26. 

 Anabas scandens Tate Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1909, p. 771. 

 Anabas scandens Sundara Raj, Rec. Ind. Mus. XII. Prt. VI. 1916. p. 276. 

 Anabas scandens van Oye, Contr. a la faune des hides Need. I. fasc. III. 1917, 



p. 306, 307. 



D. XVI XIX. 710; A. IX XI. 8 II; P. I 4 16; V.I. 5; 



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