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THE FISHES OF MALABAR. 
* Coilia Dussumieri. 
Coilia Dussumieri, Cuv. & Val. xxi. p. 81, pi. 610. 
D. 14. P. Y. 7. A. 80. C. 11. L. 1. 60. 
Distinguishable from the C. Reynaldi by the size of the pectoral, the free rays of which are 
rather shorter : and the dorsal is not quite so pointed. 
Teeth—Fine and similar to the C. Reynaldi. 
Colours—Body of a brilliant golden, having two or three irregular rows of nacreous spots 
along its inferior half. 
Grows to six inches in length, and is considered good eating at Bombay, where it is common 
and abundant throughout the whole year. 
Habitat—Seas and estuaries of India. 
Genus CHATOESSUS, Cuvier. 
Brancbiostegals, about six. Body short, deep, oval, and moderately compressed: abdomen trenchant 
and denticulated. Eyes with lateral adipose lids. Muzzle projecting, intermaxillary small, attached to the 
extremity of the snout, and with wbat looks like a fibrous lip stretched from its extremity and continuing 
it to the upper end of the maxilla, which bone is placed behind it, and articulates with the tuberosity of 
the nasal. There is an emargination at the end of the upper jaw and a corresponding tubercle on the 
lower. A single dorsal, medial, with the last ray prolonged in some species. Ventral in front of or under 
dorsal. Anal elongated and behind the dorsal. Caudal forked. No teeth. The superior combs of the 
first branchial arches unite with those of the opposite side, forming a pennated point under the palate. 
Air vessel large, rounded anteriorly, and pointed posteriorly. Pyloric appendages numerous. 
Chatoessus ciiacunda. 
Clupanodon chacunda, Ham. Buck. pp. 246, 383. 
Chatoessus chacunda, Cuv. & Val. xxi. p. Ill ; Cantor. Catal. p. 311. 
B. vi. D. 19-20. P.17. V. 8. A. 20. C. 19. L. 1. 45. L. tr. 11-13. 
Length of head °f pectoral qq, of caudal 1, of base of dorsal of base of anal H of 
total length. Height of head 1, of body 1, of dorsal T 2 7 , of ventral A, of anal about A °f the 
total length. 
Eyes—Covered on their anterior and posterior thirds by adipose lids, having vertical elliptical 
openings : diameter 1 of the length of head, y of a diameter from end of snout, 1 diameter apart. 
Body rather oval: abdominal profile sharp and keeled. 
Lower jaw the longest, the superior slightly emarginate at the symphysis, receiving the upper 
portion of the lower jaw : cleft of mouth narrow: maxilla extends posteriorly to opposite the 
anterior third of the orbit, and has supplementary bones posterior to it. Opercle placed rather 
obliquely, twice and a fourth as high as broad: exposed portion of the subopercle wider than 
high. Preopercle of moderate width, angle rounded, lower limb horizontal. Interorbital space 
smooth, rather elevated longitudinally along the central line: some raised ridges bound the 
p osterior portion of a triangular depression on the summit of the head, passing from the posterior 
