205 
Hy-porhamphus ^untheri FOVkliER, Hong Kong Naturalist, 
vol. 3, nos. 3-4, p. 267, Dec. 1932 (compiled). 
Depth 9 3/4 to 10, body little compressed, robust, 
sides flattened; head 2 9/10 to 3 l/lO, head from snout 
tip 4 3/4 to 5, width 2 4/5 in its length, 4 4/5 to 5 1/5 
in its length from mandible tip. Snout 2 4/5 to 3 in 
head from snout tip; eye 3 2/3 to 4 1/5, 1 1/3 to 1 2/5 
in snout, greater to subequal with interorbital, 1 3/5 to 1 
2/3 in postocular; maxillary reaches 3/4 to eye, length 
3 2/3 to 3 3/4 in head from snout tip; interorbital 4i to 
4 1/3, level. Gill rakers 6-f- 19, slender, ^ of gill 
filaments, which 1 3/4 in eye. 
Scales 53 or 54 in median axial row to caudal 
base and 4 or 5 more on latter; 6 above lateral line; 
42 or 43 predorsal to front of snout, of v;hich 32 or 33 
forward to gill opening. Few scales along front of dorsal 
and anal. Scales with 2 short close set marginal basal 
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striae; circuli 17 to 21 fine parallel basal striae, not 
extended apically. 
D. II, 13 or II, 14, first branched ray 2 to 
2 1/10 in head from snout tip; A, II, 14 or II, 15, first 
branched ray 2-4 to 2 3/5; least depth of caudal peduncle 
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4 to 4 1/10, well compressed; pectoral 1 2/5 to 1 2/3; 
ventral 2 2/5, origin midway between front nostril and 
caudal base; caudal 1 4/5 to 1 7/8 in total head length. 
