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ELOPID^. 



1. MEGALOPS CYPRINOIDES. 



Clupea cyprinoides, Brousson. Ichthyol. pi. ix. (1782). 



Megalops Jilamentosus, Lacep. Hist. Poiss. v. p. 290, pi. xiii. fig. 3 (1803) ; 



Bleek. Nederl. TijJscbr. Dierk. iii. 1866, p. 286, and Atl. Ichth. vi. p. 86, 



pi. cclxxiii. fig. 1 (1872). 

 Cyprinodon cundinga, Ham. Bucban. Fish. Ganges, p. 254 (1822). 

 Megalops setipinnis, Richards. Ann. N. H. xi. 1843, p. 493. 

 Megalops curtijilis, Richards. Ichth. China, p. 310 (1846). 

 Megalops indicus, Cuv. & Val. Hist. Poiss. xix. p. 388, pi. cccccxlii. (1846) ; 



Bleek. Verb. Bat. Gen. xxiv. 1852, no. 7, p. 15. 

 Elo2)s cundinga, Cantor, Cat. Mai. Fish. p. 289 (1850). 

 Megalops macroplitlialmus, Bleek. Verb. Bat. Gen. xxiv. 1852, no. 7, p. 15. 

 Megalops macropterus, Bleek. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. iii. 1866, p. 284, and 



Atl. t. c. p. 85, pi. cclxxiii. fig. 2. 

 Megalops kundinga, Bleek. tt. cc. pp. 288, 87, pi. cclxxiv. fig. 1. 

 Megalops cyprinoides, Bleek. t. c. p. 290; Giinth. Cat. Fish. vii. p. 471 (1868) ; 



Bleek, Atl. t. c. p. 87, pi. cclxx. fig. 4 ; Day, Fish. Ind. p. 650, pi. clix. 



fig. 3 (1878) ; Sauv. Hist. Madag., Poiss. p. 497, pi. xlix. A. fig. 3 (1891) ; 



Pfeffer, Thierw. O.-Afr., Fiscbe, p. 70 (1896). 

 Megalops oligolepis, Bleek. t. c. p. 292. 

 FJops apalike, Day, Fish.Malab. p. 228 (1865). 

 Elops cyprinoides, Playf. & Giinth. Fish. Zanzib. p. 122 (1866) ; Peters, Reise 



Mossamb. iv. p. 92 (1868). 



Fig. 19. 







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Megalops cyprinoides. 

 Indian Ocean, after Day (Fish. Ind.) 



Depth of body equal to or a little greater than length of head, 3 to 4 

 times in total length. Eye 2f to S^ times in length of head, greater 

 than length of snout or interorbital width ; lower jaw projecting beyond 

 upper ; maxillary extending to below posterior border of eye or a little 

 beyond. Gill-rakers at least as long as gill-filaments, 25-35 on lower 

 part of anterior arch. Dorsal 17-20, originating above base of ventral. 



