DISTRIBUTION OF INDIAN FRESnWATEE FISHES. 



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Family CYPRiNODONTiDiE. 



Two genera of this family have representatives iu India, as fol- 

 lows : — 



1. Cyprinodon', Lacepede. This genus is distributed through 

 Southern Europe, North Africa, Syria, Persia, along the shores 

 of the E-ed Sea, and is also found in Cutcli^. 



2. HAPLOCHiLrs^, M'Clelland. India to the Malay archipe- 

 lago and beyond, tropical Africa, Madagascar, and islands of the 

 Indian Ocean. Also temperate and tropical America. 



These small fishes as found in India are mostly inhabitants of 

 waters within the influence of tides or along the deltas of large 

 rivers ; some, however, reside in streams on hills, as the western 

 Ghauts and Sind hills. 



The distribution of the species is as follows : — 



Genus Ctprinodon. 

 1. C. DisPAR'*, Silppell. Abyssinia, Palestine, shores of the Red 

 Sea, Cutch. 



Genus HAPLOCHiLrs. 



1. H. MELASTiGMA^, M'Clelland. Erom the Wynaad on the 

 western coast of India, uj) the Coromandel coast to Orissa, Lower 

 Bengal, and Burma. 



2. H. RUBROSTiGMA^, Jerdou. Malabar coast of India and 

 southern portions of the Coromandel coast. 



1 Includes : — Lehias, Cuvier ; Apkanias, Nardo ; Micromugil, Gulia. 



2 In considering Cutch as India, I must remark that it at one time must have 

 been west of the river Indus, which river, as observed by Balfour (Cyclopedia 

 of India), "flows through the three parts (districts of Sind), and at some compa- 

 ratively recent time it has changed its bed ; but the old bed still exists under the 

 name of Nara, and its course has been surveyed from the ruins of Alor to the 

 Eun of Cutch. From Alor to Jakrao, a distance of 100 miles, its direction is 

 nearly due south. It there divides into several channels, each bearing a separate 

 name. The most easterly channel, which retains the name of Nara, runs to the 

 south-east by Kipra and Umrkot, near which it turns to the south-west by 

 Wanga Bazar and Romaka Bazar, and is there lost in the great Run of Cutch." 



3 Includes : — Aplocheilus, M'Clelland ; Panchax, Cuv. & Val. ; Zygonectes, 

 Agassiz ; Micristius, Gill, 



* Includes: — Cyprinodoii lunatus, Cuv. & Val. ; C. harfimonia, Richardson; 

 C. Stoliczkanus, Day. 



5 Includes : — Aplocheilus M'ClellandiJSlceker; Aplocheilus carnaticus, Jerdon ; 

 Panchax cyanophthalmus, Blyth ; Haplochilus argentcus, Day. 



^ Perhaps includes Aplocheilus affinis, Jerdon. 



