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Zeusgallus Bloch, lehth., VI, 29, pi. CXCII.fig. 1, 1788; not of Linnseus, locality not given. 
Zeus ciliaris Bloch, lehth., VI, 27, pi. 191, 1788, East Indies. 
Scomberfilamcntosus Mungo Park, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, III, 1797, 30, Sumatra. 
(i alius virescens Laccpcde, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 583, 1802, locality not given; after Linnaeus. 
Scyris indica Riippell, All. Fische, Fische des rothen. M ceres, 128, taf. 33, fig. 1. 1828, Djetta; Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist, 
Nat. Poiss., IX, 115, pi. 252, 1833 (Pondicherry and Java); Riippell, Neue Wirbelt., Fische, 51, 1838; Richardson, 
/ lehth. China, 270, 1810 (Canton). 
Blepharisfasciatus Riippell, Atl. Reis. Nordl. Af., 129, pi. 33, fig. 2, 1828. 
Gallichthys chcvola Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IX, 175, 1833; after Russell. 
Gallichthys major Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IX, 108, pi. 254, 1833 India; Richardson, lehth. China, 271, 
1840 (China Seas); Cantor, Cat. Malayan Fishes, 130,1850 (Sea of Pinang, Singapore). 
Scyris ruppellii Swainson, Class. Fish., II, 251, 1839, locality not given. 
Scyris indicus , Cantor, Cat. Malayan Fishes, 134, 1850 (Sea of Pinang). 
Car angoides blepharis Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen., XXIV, 1852, 67, Batavia. 
< 'aranyoides gallichthys Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen., XXIV, 1852, 08, East Indies. 
Caranx gall us, Gunther, Cat., II, 455, 1800 (Malay Peninsula, China, Java); Gunther, Fische der Sudsee, V, 135, 1870 (Hawa¬ 
iian and Society islands); Day, Fishes of India, II, 224, PI. LI, fig. 3, 1870. 
Caranx ciliaris, Gunther, Cat., II, 454, 1800 (Amboyna; India); Gdnther, Fische der Sudsee, V, 135, pi. 89, 1870 (Pelew, 
Kingsmill, Sandwich, and Solomon islands). 
Scyris galius, Klunzinger, Fische des rothen Meeres, I, 101, 1884. 
Scyris ciliaris, Klunzinger, 1. c. (Red Sea). 
Alcctis ciliaris , Jordan «fc Evermann, Fish. North & Mid. Amcr., I, 931, 1896; Jordan A Evermann, Amer. Food and Game 
Fishes, 308, 1902; Jordan & Evermann, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXV, 1902, 338 (Kerum, Formosa); Jenkins, Bull. 
U. 8. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23,1903), 447 ( Honolulu); Snyder, op. cit. (Jan. 19, 1904),525 (Honolulu; Hanalci 
Bay, Kauai). 
Family LVI. BRAMIDtE.—T he Pomfrets. 
Body oblong, more or less elevated, strongly compressed, covered with firm adherent scales, large 
or small; scales firm, cycloid, lobate, or emarginate, or with a median ridge or spine, this character 
found in the young of all species but disappearing with age in some of them. Mouth moderate, very 
oblique, maxillary broad and scaly, premaxillary protractile; jaws with bands of slender teeth; vomer 
and palatine teeth present or absent; preopercle entire or serrulate, serrate or spinous in the young; 
opercles well developed; dorsal and anal fins long, similar to each other, each with 3 or 4 anterior 
rays short and simple, developed as spines, the remaining rays all articulated; soft dorsal and anal 
scaly or with a sheath of scales; ventrals small, below the pectoral; axillary scale well developed, the 
rays 1 , 5; pectoral long; caudal peduncle slender, the fin lunate or forked, sometimes widely so; 
branohiostegais 7; pseudobranchiie present; pyloric caeca few; air-bladder present or absent; supraoc- 
cipital crest large and high, extending forward to the snout; vertebra 1 numerous (1(1 I 23=39 in Brama 
rail); skeleton firm; shoukler-girdle thick and heavy, the hypocoracoid especially large and much 
dilated, entering the ventral outline, excluding the pubic bones from contact with the shoulder-girdle; 
pubic bones short, and small; nenrals and interneurals small and slender. Fishes of the open sea, 
widely distributed and often inhabiting considerable depths, subject to great changes with age. 
Genus 116. COLLYBUS Snyder. 
Body deep, ovate, greatly compressed; teeth in narrow bands, about 2 or 3 rows on jaws, none on 
vomer or palatines; 2 small fangs on each side of lower jaw near tip; teeth all small, weak, sharply 
pointed; gillrakers long and slender; pseudobranchiie large; pyloric ececa 4, 2 of them about equal in 
length to diameter of pupil, the others nearly as long as stomach; vertebra; 38; mouth very oblique, 
nearly vertical; operele, suboperele, interopercle, and preopercle smooth; scales short, very broad 
(vertically), the upper and lower edges sharply pointed, strongly ctenoid, each scale with a median, 
thickened, vertical ridge having a conspicuous tubercle in the center; number of scales in a lateral row 
between operele and base of caudal about 50; no lateral line; dorsal inserted on a vertical passing just 
behind base of ventral, rays 34, the anterior 3 or 4 without articulations; anal 30, a row of scales along 
base of fin; caudal deeply forked; ventral inserted on a vertical through posterior half of base of 
pectoral. 
Color silvery, dusky on head and back. 
