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35. ERYTHRICHTHYS SCHLEGELI (Bleeker). 



Erythrichthys Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, 1845, p. 117, pi. 63, 



fig. 1 (Nagasaki). 

 Emmelichthys schlegeli Bleeker, Nieuwe Nalez. Verh. Bat. Gen., vol. 26, 1857, 



p. 20 (after Temnainck and Schlegel); Enum. Poiss., Verh. kon. Akad. Amst., 



vol. 18, 1879, p. 8. — ^Jordan and Snyder, Check List, Ann. Zool. Jap., vol. 3, 



pts. 2 and 3, p. 82, 1901 (Yokohama). 

 Erythrichthys schlegeli Gxjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 395 (after 



Temminck and Schlegel). 



Habitat. — Coasts of southern Japan. 



Description of two specimens, 410 and 400 mm. in total length, 

 from Tokyo and one from Misaki, 155 mm. Measurements of head, 

 including lower jaw. 



Head 3| to 3^ in body length; depth 4; eye 3§ in head; maxillary 

 21; snout 3f ; interorbital space 3§; D. XI, 11; A. Ill, 10; scales 



Fig. 15.— Erytheichthys schlegeli. 



in lateral line 65 to 72; in transverse series between dorsal and anal 

 insertions 10/17; gill-rakers 25 on lower limb of first arch; branchios- 

 tegals 7. 



Body outlines evenly symmetrical; caudal peduncle slender, its 

 depth 4f in head (to tip of lower jaw), and with a distinct ridge on 

 each side along lateral line ; breadth of body contained about twice in its 

 depth. Axis of head coinciding with that of body; lower jaw project- 

 ing, its tip conical, produced ; maxillary breadth two-thirds of that of 

 eye, ending under anterior margin of pupil; upper lip broad, its 

 breadth 4J in eye. Nostrils situated nearer center of eye than tip 

 of snout; close together, separated by less than breadth of anterior 

 one. Eye without prominent adipose lids. Preopercular niargm 

 flexible, slightly crenate, vertical limb not deeply concave, but 

 straight, its angle less than 45°. Opercular points two, separated 

 by half diameter of eye; above upper a smaller more obscure one. 

 Teeth in jaws minute, present anteriorly only, all pointing back- 

 ward. Palatines with a small band or patch. 



