1923.] Fauna of the Chilka Lake : Fish. 729 



Distribution. — Seas and coasts of India including estuaries, the Malay Archipelago 

 and China. 



Gerres punctatus, Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



1803. Zeus sp. (wodawahah), Russell, Fish. Vizag. I, p. 52, pi. lxvii. 



1803. Zeus sp. (woodan), id., ibid., p. 53, pi. lxviii. 



1830. Genes punctatus, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. VI, p. 480. 



1830. Gerres filamentosus, id., ibid., p. 482. 



1849. Catochaenum filamentosum, Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, p. 1038. 



1850. Gerres filamentosus, Bleeker, Verh, Batav. Gen. XXIII, p. 10. 

 1853. Gerres filamentosus, id., ibid., XXV, p. 40. 



1853. Gerres punctatus, id., ibid. 



1859. Gerres filamentosus, Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. I, p. 345. 



1859. Gerres punctatus, id., ibid., p. 346. 



1862. Gerres punctatus, id., ibid., IV, p. 260. 



1862. Gerres filamentosus, id., ibid., p. 261. 



1863. Diapterus filamentosus. Bleeker, Ned. Tij.d . DierJc. I, p. 231. 



1867. Gerres filamentosus, Joixan, Mem. Soc. Imp. Sei. Nat, Cherbourg XIII (Ser. 20), p. 263. 



1873. Diapterus punctatus, Bleeker, Ned. Tijds., DierJc. IV, p. 140. 



1875. Gerres filamentosus, Day, Fish. Ind., p. 98, pi. xxv, fig. 3. 



1877. Diapterus filamentosus, Bleeker, Ail. Ichthyol. VIII, p. 124, pi. ccclxii, fig. 31. 



1889. Gerres filamentosus, Day, Faun. Brit. Ind. I. p. 98, fig. 163. 



1903. Xystaema filamentosus, Jordan and Everrnann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXV, p. 352. 



1904. Gerres filamentosus, Fowler, Journ, Acad. Nat. Sei., Philadelphia (2) XII, p. 530. 



1905. Xystaema filamentosum, Jordan, Stud, Fish. II, p. 348. 



1905. Xystaema punctatum, Jordan and Seale, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. XXVIII, p. 782. 



1906. Xystaema punctatum, id., Bull. TJ. S. Bur. Fish. XXV, p. 272. 



1907. Xystaema punctatum, Jordan and Seale, Bull. TJ. S. Bur. Fish. XXVI, p. 24. 



1908. Xystaema punctatum, Seale and Bean, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. XXXIII, p. 244. 



1911. Xystaema punctatum, Jordan and Richardson, Mem. Carnegie Mus. IV, p. 190. 



1912. Gerres filamentosus, Snyder, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. XLII, p. 501. 



1913. Gerres filamentosus, Weber, 'Siboga'-Exped, Fisch., p. 271. 



1913. Gerres filamentosus, Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. S. Afric. Mus. XI, p. 33. 

 1917. Gerres filamentosus, Hornell, Madras Fish, Bull, XI, p. 93. 



67. punctatus is evidently the same as 67. filamentosus (the depth, 3| in the total length 

 with caudal, in 67. punctatus is true of the very young stage only till 2\ inches long — in the 

 adult it is 3 or a little less). The name punctatus appears in the same work as filamentosus, 

 but, being on an earlier page, has priority. 1 



There is only one specimen in the collection, 76 mm. in length, caught near Satpara in 

 October, 1914. The dorsum is brown and the fins are dull yellow (in spirit) and the snout 

 is not black. The specimen possesses an adipose eye-lid. 



The species is only a casual visitor to the lake, and does not proceed further inwards 

 than the outer channel. 



1 Jordan and Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisher. XXV, p. 272. 



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