1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes, 1193 



lobe a little longer than the inferior. The stomach is short, thick, 

 gizzard-like ; the gall very large. There are four ccecopyloric append- 

 ages. The intestinal canal is spirally folded, more than twice the 

 length of the fish. A single young individual was observed at Pinang 

 in March 1845. The fishermen asserted that it is of rare occurrence, 

 and attains to a foot in length. 



FAM. AULOSTOMATID.E. 



Gen. Cannorynchus,* Cantor. 



{Equivalent to Fistularia, Linne, 1766). 



Mouth tubular, elongated, depressed ; jaws slightly cleft, nearly hori- 

 zontal, with small teeth ; head elongated from ^ to \ of the total 

 length ; body elongated depressed ; scales invisible ; behind the head, 

 above and below, some bony appendages casing the anterior part of 

 the head, dorsal fin single, and as well as the anal composed of undi- 

 vided rays ; branchiostegous rays seven. 



Cannorynchus immaculatus, (Commerson.) 



Russell, CLXXIII. Goorum. — Fistularia tabacaria, Lin. 



Fistularia tabaccaria, White, Voyage Bot. Bay. P. 296, Fig. 2. 



Fistularia immaculata, (Commerson,) Cuv. R. A. II. 267. (') 



Fistularia commersonii, Riippell : Neue Wirbelth. Fische, 142. 



Fistularia immaculata, Richardson, Rep. 1845, 247. 



Young. Head above light greenish grey ; upper half of opercles 

 greenish olive minutely dotted with black, lower half as well as the 

 under surface of the head and the abdomen whitish ; sides of the body 

 light slate grey ; the lateral line bordered beneath by a pale silvery 

 bluish white line ; fins greenish hyaline ; caudal filament brownish 

 olive. Iris narrow golden round the pupil ; the rest blackish silvery. 



D 15, 16 or 17, C 13f, A 14 or 15, V 1/5, P 15, Br. VII. 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang. 



Indian Ocean, Coromandel, Mohila, (Red Sea.) 



Length of the head : ft. 5| inch. 



„ „ „ body to the root of caudal fin, . . „ 8f „ 

 „ „ „ caudal filament, „ 4f „ 



Total length : 1 ft. 6| inch. 

 * KdwT), reed; pvyxos, snout. Substituted for Fistularia, Linne, 1766, pre-occu» 

 pied by Fistularia, Donati, 1750. {Polypi.) 



