1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes* 1181 



maxillaries furnished with minute card-like teeth ; a regular series of 

 minute teeth like cilia along the margin of the upper maxillaries ; 

 branchiostegous rays eight ; the stomach is a wide cul-de-sac ; cseca 

 six or eight ; intestine ample, but short ; air-vessel none. 



Echeneis naucrates, Linne. 



Echeneis neucrates, Linne: Syst. Nat. 1188. 



Echeneis neucrates, Forskal : Descr. Anim. p. XVI. No. 7. 



Echeneis naucrates, Bonnat. Encyclop. Method, Ichthyol. Tab. 33. 



Echeneis neucrates, Bloch. Tab. 171. Fig. 124. 



Echeneis neucrates, Shaw IV. 209, PI. 31. 



Echeneis neucrates, Russell XLIX. Ala Mottah. 



Echeneis naucrates, Cuv. R. A. (Ed. I.) II. 228. 



Echeneis neucrates, Bennett : Life of Raffles, 692. 



Echeneis vittata, Ruppell : N. W. Fische, 82. 



Echeneis naucrates, Richardson: Report 1845, 203. 



Echeneis naucrates, Temm. et Schl. Fauna Jap. Tab. CXX. Fig. 1. 



Guddimi of the Malays. 



(Adult.) Disk, fins, and ground-colour of body livid or lead colour 

 of different shades ; from the muzzle over the side of the head a broad 

 bluish black band, in some more or less continued along the lateral 

 line ; in some the throat and posterior half of the body bluish black ; 

 in others livid patches on the sides and abdomen ; upper and lower 

 corner of the caudal with a crescent-shaped or triangular milk-white 

 spot. Iris silvery bluish black. 



(Young.) Of darker colours than the adult ; the elevated angles 

 of the dorsal and caudal milk-white as also the angular spots on the 

 trapezoidal caudal. 



D 2/33 to 38, C 17f, A 2/33 to 38, V 1/5, P 21 to 23, Br. IX. 



Disks 23 to 26. 



Habit — Sea of Pinang, Malayan Peninsula, Singapore. 



Atlantic on both sides, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Bay of 

 Bengal, Sumatra, Australia, Polynesia, Japan. 



Total length : 2 ft. 4 inch. 



Single individuals occur at all seasons in the Straits of Malacca. 

 The Malays consider this fish to be powerful manure for fruit trees. 

 (Low: Dissert, of Pinang , 179). 



