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925. (18.) Caranx malabaricus. 



Scomber malabaricus, EL Schn. Si/st. Ich. p. 31. 

 Caranx nialabaricus, 'Day, Fish. India, p. 221, pi. 1, fig. 2, Suppl. 

 p. 789 (see synon.). 



Tottam parah, Tarn. 

 D. 7-8 | 1/21-22. P. 21. V. 1/5. A. 2 | 1/17-18. 0. 21. Sc.1.28. 



Length of head 3| to 4, height of body 2^ in young to 2| in 

 adult of the total length. Eyes without distinct adipose lids ; 

 diameter 3 in length of head, 1 diam. from end of snout, and | 

 apart. Body oval and strongly compressed, dorsal and anal pro- 

 files equally convex. Occipital crest well developed. Lower jaw 

 slightly the longer ; maxilla reaches to below first third of eye. 

 Greatest depth of the preorbital nearly equals one diameter of the 

 orbit. Teeth villiform in both jaws, in a somewhat triangular 

 spot on the vomer, an elongate band along the palatines, and 

 likewise along the centre of the tongue, the last widest anteriorly. 

 Fins dorsal spines of moderate strength, second, third, and fourth 

 about the same height and two fifths of that of body ; second 

 dorsal fin highest in front, where the rays are the height of 

 the body and are similar to those in the anal. Pectoral rather 

 longer than the head. Ventral small. Caudal deeply forked. 

 Settles on the head there are merely a few behind the middle of 

 the eye, none on the chest. Only a low groove along the first part 

 of the soft dorsal fin. Lateral line 90 to 105 scales, it forms a 

 low curve to below the twelfth or thirteenth dorsal ray. Its plates 

 only commence under about the twentieth ray, becoming most 

 developed on free portion of tail, when their greatest depth only 

 equals ^- to J- of height of body, being proportionately smaller 

 in adults. Colour back bluish, sides and abdomen silvery shot 

 with purple ; a dull black mark in axilla. The whole posterior 

 half and upper edge of opercle stained black or brown (dark stain 

 said to be sometimes absent). Dorsal usually stained darkest at 

 its outer edge, the other fins pale yellow. 



Hob. Eed Sea, seas of India to the Malay Archipelago and 

 Australia ; attaining at least a foot in length. 



926. (19.) Caranx oblongus. 



Caranx oblongus, Cuv. $ Val H. N. Pom. ix, p. 128; Day, Fish. 



India, p. 222, pi. li, fig. 1 (see synon.). 

 Ho-thul-dah, Andam. . . 



D. 8 | 1/21-22. P. 21. A. 2 | 1/18-19. C. 18. Sc. 1. 34-40. 

 Length of head 4 to 4|, height of body 3| in the total length. 



s without distinct adipose lids; diameter 3| in young to 4^ in 

 It in length of head, nearly 1 diam. from end of snout, and | 

 to 1 apart. Body oval, dorsal profile rather more convex than 

 abdominal, a slight concavity in profile opposite upper third of eye. 

 Occipital crest moderately developed. Lower jaw the longer. 



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