CATALOGUE OF MALAYAN FISHES. 

 By THEODORE CANTOR, Esq. M. D. Bengal Medical Service. 



[Localities printed in Italics signify those from whence the fishes were obtained ; in 

 ordinary type those previously given by authors. The descriptions are drawn up from 

 recently taken specimens.] 



Subclassis— TELEOSTEI. 



Ordo.— ACANTHOPTERI. 



Fam. PERCOID.E. 



Gen. Lates, Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1828. 



Infraorbital- and humeral bones, and preopercle strongly toothed, 

 the latter with a spine at the angle ; anterior dorsal fin higher but 

 shorter than in Perca and Labrax ; tongue smooth. 



Lates heptadactylus, (Lacepede.) 

 Perca maxima, Sonnerat (MS. ?) Cuv. and Val. II. 96. 

 Holocentre heptadactyle, Lacepede, IV. 344 and 391, 

 Russell, CXXXI. Pandoomenoo. 

 Coius vacti, Buchanan Ham, 86, 369, PI. 16, Fig. 28. 

 Lates nobilis, Cuv. and Val. II. 96, PL 13. 

 Lates nobilis, Cuv. R. A. II. 134^>. 

 Lates nobilis, Richardson: Report, 1845, 222. 

 Lates nobilis, Bleeker : Verb. Batav. Genoots. XXII. 16, 27. 

 Ikan Siyakup of the Malays. 



Head and back brownish, or blackish pale green, sides silvery grey ; 

 scales with a brownish spot at the root, or edged with that colour ; 

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