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Sub-family LUTJANINAE. 



Genus LUTJANUS Bloch. 



Lutjanus johnii (Bloch). 



1795. Anthias johnii, Bloch, Ichthyol. IX, p. 97, pi. cccxviii. 



1801. Anthias johnii, Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichthyol., p. 303. 



1802. Lutjanus johnii, Lacépède, Hist. Poiss. TV, p. 235. 



1803. Sparus sp. (doondiawah), Russell, Fish. Vizagapatam, I, p. 76, pi. xcvii. 

 .1803. Sparus sp. (mungimupudee), id., ibid., II, p. 8, pi. ex. 



1803. Sparus tranquebaricus, Shaw, Gen. Zool., Pise. TV, p. 471. 



1822. Coius catus, Hamilton Buchanan, Fish. Ganges, pp. 90 & 369, pi. 38, fig. 30. 



1824. Mesoprion unimaeulatus, Quoy and Gaimard, Zool. Freycin., pp. 304-441. 



1828. Mesoprion johnii, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. TL, p. 443. 



1831. Mesoprion Pavipinnis, id., ibid., VII, p. 475. 



1831. Serranus pavoninus, id., ibid., VII, p. 443. 



1831. Lutjanus johnii, Desmarest, Oeuvres Lacép., IX, p. 127. 



1834. Mesoprion unimaeulatus, Quoy and Gaimard, Toy. de V Astrolabe., Poiss. Ill, p. 665, 



pi. V, fig. 3. 



1836. Mesoprion unimaeulatus, Cnvier, Peg. Anim., Poiss. p. 35. 



1846. Mesoprion unimaeulatus, Richardson, Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sc. (1845), p. 229. 



1849. Mesoprion johnii, Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, p. 995. 



1849. Mesoprion unimaeulatus, Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Gen. XXII, pp. 4, 20 and 42. 



1853. Mesoprion unimaeulatus, Jerdon, Madras Journ. Lit. Sei. XVII, p. 130. 



1859. Serranus pavoninus, Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. I, p. 126. 



1859. Mesoprion johnii, id.. ibid., p. 200. 



1865. Mesoprion johnii, Day, Fish. Malabar, p. 11. 



1865. Mesoprion johnii, Kner, Reis. 'Novara' Fisch., p. 35. 



1876. Lutianis johnii, Day, Fish. Ind., p. 42, pi. xiii, fig. 1. 



1877. Lutjanus johni, Bleeker, Ail. Ichthyol. Ind. Orient. Neerl. VIII, p. 49, pi. cccxxxviii, 



fig. 1. 

 1889. Lutjanus johnii, Day, Faun. Brit. Ind. Fish. I, p. 476. 

 1904. Lutianus johnii, Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sei. Philadelphia (2) XII, p. 325. 



1906. Lutianus johni, Jordan and Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish. XXV, p. 264. 



1907. Lutianus johnii, Lloyd, Rec. Ind. Mus., I, p. 226. 



1907. Lutianus johnii, Evermann and Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish. XXVI, p. 79. 



1908. Lutianus johnii, Gilchrist and Thomson, Ann. South African Mus. VI, p. 213. 

 1913. Lutianus johnii, Weber, 'Siboga'-Exped. LVII, Fisch, p. 247. 



There is only one specimen (young) measuring 50 mm. in length, captured on 17th 

 November 1914, when proceeding across the mouth of Rambha Bay between Chirriya 

 Island and Barkuda Island. There are three broad but faint transverse bands ; the black 

 ocellus commences at the thirty-fourth scale from the snout and on the twentieth scale of the 

 lateral line ; the ocellus measures 10 mm. X 8 mm. 



The species is only an occasional visitor in the main area of the lake. 



