1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 1271 



Elops cundinga, (Buchan. Ham.) 



Clupea cyprinoides,* Broussonnet : Decade. 

 Clupea cjprinoides, Joh. Forster : Spicil. 

 Clupea apalike, Lacepede, V. Tab. 13, Fig. 3. 

 Russell, CCIII. Kundinga. 

 Cyprinodon cundinga, Buchan. Ham. 254, 383. 

 Megalops filamentosus, Cuv. R. A. II. 324. 

 Megalops filamentosus, Swainson, II. 293. 

 Megalops indicus,f Cuv. and Val. XIX. 388, PI. 577. 

 Megalops filamentosus, Jerdon: Madras Journ. XV. 344. 

 Megalops indicus, Bleeker: Verh. Batav. Gen. XXII. 6. 

 Head above dark olive ; back blackish blue silvery ; sides and abdo- 

 men frosted silvery with bluish reflections, the lateral line and the 

 margins of the scales shining silvery, as well as the sides of the head ; 

 above the upper margin a large blackish silvery spot ; centre-part of 

 both jaws blackish ; dorsal and caudal greyish, minutely dotted with 

 black, margins as well as the last elongated dorsal ray blackish ; rest 

 of the fins hyaline, in some dotted with black, and the last anal ray 

 blackish. Iris shining silvery, orbital margin blackish. 

 JD 19 or 21, C 19f, A 26, 27 or 28, V 10 or 12, P 15 or 16, 



Br. left XXVI, right XXV. 

 or „ XXV, „ XXIV. 

 Habit. — Sea and freshwater, Pinang, Malayan Peninsula. 



Freshwater and coasts of Otaheiti, Isles of Tanna and 

 Buru, China Sea, Port Essington, Polynesia, Madagas- 

 car ; Rivers of Java, freshwater and Sea of Madura, 

 Celebes, Malabar, Coromandel, Gangetic estuaries. 

 Total length : 1 foot. 



* M. Valenciennes has fully exposed (XIX. 384) the confusion of the Indian 

 and American species by Broussonnet, Bloch, Gmelin, Bonaterre, Lace*pede,and 

 Shaw, whose specific names are therefore inadmissible. 



f Elops indicus, preoccupied, being one of the synonymes of Elops saurus, 

 Linne, (vide supra.) 



t Russell, D 18, C 26, A 25, V 9, P 15, Br. XXIII. 



Buchanan,.... „ 19, „ 19, „ 26, „ 10, ,, 15, ,, XXV. 

 Cuv. and Val., „ 18, ,, 30, „ 25, „ 11, „ 14, „ XXIV— XXV. 



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