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Distribution. — Red Sea, seas of India, Malay Archipelago, Indo-Australian Archi- 

 pelago, China, Philippines and Formosa. 



Genus LEIOGNATHUS, Lacépède. 



Leiognathus equulus (Forskäl). 



1758. Scomber flavescens latitudine ad longitudinem dimidea denticulis piliformibus, Artedi, Descrip. 



Exac. Princ. Curios. Natur. Cab. Seba, III, p. 75, pi. xxvii, fig. 4. 

 1775. Scomber equula, Forskâl, Descrip. Anim. Pise. p. 58. 

 1785. Scomber edentulus, Bloch, Allgem. Natur. Fisch., pi. ccccxxviii. 

 1788. Centrogaster equula, Linnaeus and Gnielin, Syst. Natur. (Ed. xiii), I, p. 1337. 



1801. Scomber edentulus, Bloch, and Schneider, Syst. Ichthyol, p. 36. 



1802. Caeses equulus, Lacépède, Hist. Natur. Poiss. Ill, pp. 85, 90. 



1803. Leiognathus argenteus, id., ibid., TV, pp. 448 and 449. 



1803. Zeus sp. (tottah karah), Russell, Fish. Vizagapatam, I, p. 49. pi. lxii. 



1804. Scomber equula, Shaw, Gener. Zool. TV, p. 596. 



1835. Equula ensifera, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. X, p. 66. 



1835. Equula caballa, id., ibid., p. 73. 



1836. Equula ensifera, Cuvier, Reg. Anim., Poiss., p. 139. 

 1836. Equula totta, id., ibid. 



1838. Equula caballa, Rüppell, Neu. Wirbel. Faun. Abyssinien Gehör. Fisch. (Roth.-Meer), pp. 

 51 and 52. 



1848. Equula serrulifera, Richardson, Zool. Toy. 'Erebus' and 'Terror' II, Ichthyol, p. 137, pi. 



lix, figs. 12 to 14. 



1849. Equula caballa, Cantor, Joum. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, p. 1128. 



1851. Equula caballa, Jerdon, Madras Joum. Lit. Sei., p. 138. 



1852. Equula ensifera, Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXIV, p. 8. 

 1860. Equula edentula, Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. II, p. 498. 

 1860. Equula caballa, id., ibid., p. 499. 



1863. Leiognathus edentulus, Bleeker, Ned. Tijdsch. DierJc. I, p. 235. 



1865. Leiognathus edentulus, id., ibid., TL, p. 148. 



1865. Equula ensifera, Kner, Reis. ' Novara,' Fisch., p. 166. 



1865. Equula edentula, Day, Fish. Malabar, p. 103. 



1866. Equula edentula, Playfair, Fish. Zanzibar, p. 65. 



1869. Equula ruconius, Day (not Hamilton Buchanan), Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 302. 



1871. Equula caballa, Klunzinger, Verh. Zool. -Bot. Ges. Wien, p. 467. 



1871. Equula edentula, id., ibid. 



1873. Leiognathus edentulus, Bleeker, Versl. AJcad. Amsterdam (2) VII, p. 37. 



1875. Leiognathus edentulus, id., Poiss. Madagascar et Réunion, p. 98. 



1876. Equula edentula, Day, Fish. Ind., p. 238, pi. lii, fig. 1. 



1879. Leiognathus edentulus, Verh. Ahad. Amsterdam XVIII, p. 18. 



1885. Equula edentula, Vinciguerra, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova (2) II, XXII, p. 88. 



1889. Equula edentula, Day, Faun. Brit. India, Fish. II, p. 186, fig. 65. 



1890. Equula edentula, Vinciguerra, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova (2) IX, p. ]71. 

 1903. Leiognathus edentulum, Jordan and Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXV, p. 338. 

 1905. Leiognathus edentulus, Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei. Philadelphia LVQ, p. 510. 



