1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 1009 



The ascending margin of the preopercle is very finely toothed, but 

 the lowest tooth is conspicuously larger than the rest. The lateral line 

 is nearly straight from its posterior half. From the base of the caudal 

 it continues sloping a little downwards on the lower half of the fin, and 

 divides in two or three horizontal branches, which reach the margin 

 of the fin. A little behind the place where the cystic and hepatic 

 ducts jointly enter the duodenum, the latter sends forth three branches 

 which again terminate in innumerable ccecopyloric appendages. This 

 species, as first observed by M. M, Cuvier and Valenciennes, has no 

 air vessel. 



Polynemus plebeius, Broussonnet. 

 Polynemus plebeius, Emoi, Broussonnet : Fasc. I. PI. 7. 

 Polynemus plebeius, Linne, Syst. 1401. 

 Bynni, Bruce, Appendix. 

 Polynemus plebeius, Bloch. 



Polynemus lineatus, Lacepede V. 409, PI. 13, Fig. 2. 

 Polynemus plebeius, Shaw, V. 150, PI. 125, Bynni Carp. 

 Polynemus niloticus, Shaw, ibid. 151. 

 Polynemus commersonii, Shaw, ibid. 156. 



Polynemus plebeius, Cuv. and Val. III. (380. Excl. Syn. P. sele, 



Buchan.) 

 Polynemus plebeius, Temminck and Schlegal : Fauna, Jap Pise, 29, 



PI. XI. Fig. 1. 



Polynemus plebeius, McClelland, Cal. Journ. of Nat. Hist. Vol. 



III. p. 185, (Excl. Syn. P. sele and the accomp. PI. VI. P. sele.) 



Polynemus plebeius, Richardson: Report 1845, 219, (Excl. Syn. 



P. sele.) 

 Polynemus plebeius, Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Gen. XXII. 25, 58. 



(Excl. Syn. P. sele.) 



Head above and back greenish grey, or pale bluish silvery ; sides pale 



silvery ; abdomen white ; fins whitish grey, minutely dotted with black ; 



dorsals, caudal and pectorals with pale blackish margins. Iris silverv, 



metallic green at the upper part of the orbit. Filaments white. 



D 8—1/13 or 14, C 1/f, A 3/12 or 13, V 1/5, P 13 or 14, Fila- 

 ments 5, Br. VII. 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang. 



Otaheiti, Isle of Tanna, Isle of France, 



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