1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 1007 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang, Singapore. 



Port Jackson, Isle of France, Malabar, Pondicherry, 

 Batavia, Surabaya. 



Total length : 2 feet 6 inch. 



The length of the head from the symphysis to the centre of the 

 posterior caudal margin is about ^ of the total length. The hori- 

 zontal diameter of the oval eye is \ of the length of the head : the 

 eye consequently appears comparatively larger than in S.jello. The 

 opercle terminates in a single flat, membranous point ; the preopercle 

 is not rounded, but almost rectangular ; the symphysis of the lower 

 jaw is obtuse, and less prominent than in S, jello. There are but 

 three longer teeth (the second, third and fourth,) in front on each 

 side of the palatals ; the rest are all uniformly small. The ventral 

 fins are not situated opposite the anterior dorsal, at the termination 

 of the pectorals, but in front of the anterior dorsal, opposite the 

 posterior half of the pectorals. The caudal fin is less deeply cleft than 

 in S. jello. At Pinang a few individuals occur at all seasons. 



Gen. Polynemus, Gronov. 1754. 



(Pentanemus, Artedi.) 



Head compressed, covered with scales ; muzzle obtuse, prominent ; 

 branchiostegous rays 7 ; pectoral fins with distinct appendages. 



Polynemus tetradactylus, Shaw. 

 I Trigla asiatica, Linne, Syst. 1345. 

 Russell CLXXXIII. Maga Jellee. 

 Polynemus tetradactylus, Shaw, V. 155. 

 Polynemus teria, Buchan. Ham. 224, 381. 

 Polynemus tetradactylus, Cuv. and Val. III. 375. 

 (Icon.)— Polynemus teria, Gray : 111. Ind. Zool. I. PI. 92, Fig. 2. 

 Polynemus salliah, Cantor: Journ. Royal As. Soc. V. 166. 

 Polynemus quadrifilis, Cantor: 1. c. 



Polynemus tetradactylus, Swainson : Nat. Hist. Fish. II, 234. 

 Polynemus tetradactylus, McClelland : Journ. As. Soc. VIII. 

 Polynemus tetradactylus, Royle : On Isinglass, 25, 26. 

 Polynemus tetradactylus, Penny Cyclop. Vol. XVIII. p, 



360, Note. 

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