CHECK-LIST OF THE SPECIES OF FISHES 



KNOWN FROM THE PHILIPPINE 



ARCHIPELAGO. 



By DAVID STAEB JORDAN and ROBERT EARL RICHARDSO> 



In the present paper is given a list of all species of fishes positively 

 known at the date of January 1, 1909, as inhabiting the waters of the 

 Philippine Archipelago. A complete bibliography of the ichthyology of 

 the Philippines is given in the Appendix. 



The writers are indebted to Mr. Alvin Seale and to Mr. Richard Crit- 

 tendcn McGregor for important aid on the preliminary work of tho 

 preparation of this catalogue; 830 species are included, a large number, 

 which probably represents less than half of the actual fish fauna of these 

 Islands. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The list has been drawn up without reference to the lists of Elera, 

 Gogorza, and Palacky (noted in the bibliography). A list of those 

 species of Palacky's catalogue which are known on no other authority 

 than that of Palacky, Elera, or Gogorza, is appended at the conclusion of 

 the present check-list. In the present list the full reference to the original 

 description is given in case only of those species not noticed or described 

 in Giinther's Catalogue of the Fishes of the British Museum. In the 

 record of geographical distribution which follows the name of each species 

 admitted to the check-list, the name by which the species was designated 

 by an author is given only in case the specific name \ised was different 

 from the one here employed. 



