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REPORT ON THE MARINE FISHES 
By J. JOHNSTONE, B.Sc. 
T he marine fish collected by Messrs. Annandale and Robinson on the 
coast of Patani and Jhering, belong to the following species : — 
SQUAMIPINNES 
1. Chaetodon (?) sp. 
I refer to this family three small fishes, i cm. and less in length, which 
were caught on the surface in the estuary of the Jambu River. 
They are oblong and compressed, and the head is heavily armed with 
bone. There is a long and stout post-frontal spine, and another smaller spine 
at the inferior angle of the operculum. The skin is apparently scaleless, but 
is covered with minute spines. The dorsal fin has eleven spines, followed by 
eighteen rays ; the anal has four stout and pointed spines and sixteen rays. 
The fish resembles Tholichthys^ but is certainly a different form. It is probably 
the young of a species of Chaetodon. 
‘ Little fish similar to the above are not uncommon in the Jambu estuary^ 
generally swimming near the surface in companies of three or four.’ 
SCORPAENIDAE 
2. Scorpaenopsis oxycephala, (Blkr.) 
Scorpaena oxycephalus, Blkr.., Sclerop..^ p. 20. 
‘Probably from sunk rocks outside Patani bay.’ 
SCIAENIDAE 
3. Sciaena beleng^eri, (C. and V.) 
Corvina belengeri, Cuv. and Val.., v, p. 120. 
4. Sciaena glaucus, Day 
Sciaena glaucus, Fishes India., p. 192, pi. xlvi, fig. 2. 
5. Otolithus maculatus, Cuv. 
Otolithus maculatus, Cuv.., Regn. Anim. Poiss.^ vol. xxvii, fig. 2. 
I. Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1868, p. 457 * 
