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need into an undivided, articulated filament. Operculum entire, 

 prae- and suboperculum finely denticulated at their horizon- 

 tal border. 



Distribution: that of the single species known. 



i. Osphronemus goramy Lac. (Fig. 89, p. 343). 



Osphronemus goramy Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poissons III. 1802, p. 116 & 117. 

 Osphromenus olfax Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. VII. 1831, p. 377. 

 Osphronemus satyrus Bleeker, Nat. & Geneesk. Arch. Ned. Indie II. 1845^1.519. 

 Osphromenus olfax Cantor. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. XVIII. 1850, p. 1070. 

 Osphromenus olfax Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXIII. 1850, Vissch. doolhofv. 



kieuw. p. 10. 



Osphromenus olfax Guntber, Cat. Brit. Mus. III. 1859 1861, p. 382. 

 Osphromenus olfax Day, Fishes of India 4, 1878 1888, p. 372. 

 Osphromenus olfax Bleeker, Atl. ichth. IX. 1877, tab. 395 & 396, Osphrom. 



tab. I, fig. 6, tab. II, fig. 6. 

 Osphromenus olfax Verb. Akad. Amsterdam XIX. 1879, Mem. Poiss. pharyng. 



labyrinth, p. 17. 

 Osphromenus gourami Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1909, p. 774. 



D. XII-XIII. 1 1 13; A. IX XI. 1921; P. 2, 1314; V.I. 5; 



L.I. 3033 ; L.tr. -^-. 

 1314 

 Height in large specimens nearly twice the length of the 



head, which goes about 3.4 in length, 4.3 in length with caudal; 

 head in young acute, in adult obtuse; rostro-frontal line concave, 

 in adult nearly straight. Mandible increasing in height with 

 age and getting a prominent chin. More or less brownish, 

 olivaceous above, silvery or yellowish below. In young with 

 about 8 darker crossbands; a dark spot with yellow or silvery 

 outer circle above the soft anal and a blackish spot at the 

 base of the pectoral. Length up to 500 mm. 



Nom. in dig. : gurami (indig. et sinens. Ind. Orient.), .Kalui 

 (Djambi), Ikan kali (Palembang). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Palembang, Batang Hari !, Djambi!, 

 Taluk!, Lahat, Gunung Sahilan !, Sidjundjung !, Padang Pand- 

 jang, Singkarah!, Lake of Singkarah!, Kuala Lumpur, Laut 

 Tador, riv. Selapian, Deli !, Siboga, Padang, Pajakombo, Solok, 

 Meninjau, Benkulen); Java (Batavia !, Buitenzorg!, Bantam, Tji- 

 panas, Tjandjur); Madura; Borneo (Sambas, river Kapuas, Sin- 

 tang, river Mahakam, upper coarse and upper and lower coarse 

 of river Bo, Baram river, Banjermassin). Siam, Ceylon, Pinang, 

 Malakka, naturalized in Seychelles and Australia. 



An excellent foodfish introduced and naturalized in various 



