Pylosurus crocodilus WEBER and BEAUFORT, Fishes Indo-Austral. 
Archipel., vol. 4, p, 120 (compiledj part). — HERRE, 
Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 36, no. 2, p. 229, pi. 4, 
fig. 2, June 1928 (Tacloban, Manila Bay, Sitanki, 
Zamboanga). 
Strongylura crocodila FOWLER, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 
p. 74, 1928 (part); vol. 11, no. 5, p. 319, 1931 (compiled) 
Mastacembelus roelanotus (not BLEEKER 1850) BLEEKER, Atlas 
Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 6, p. 47, (not figure), 1866-72 
(part). 
Depth 11-2/3 to 14-1/6, body well compressed, deep; head 
2-9/l0, width 5-l/3 to 5-2/3. Snout 1-3/5 to 1-2/3 in head from snout 
tip; eye 10ff to 11§-, 6-2/5 to 6*2/3 in snout, !§• to if in interorbital; 
maxillary reaches ^ to l/3 in eye, length to anterior point 2-g- to 2-7/8 
in rest of head posteriorly; lower jaw protrudes 2/3 eye diameter be¬ 
yond upper; teeth nearly vertically erect; interorbital 6-l/3 to 6j|-, 
level, with very deep median depression. 
Scales 195 to 202 in lateral axial series to caudal base; 
138 to 142 predorsal forward to occiput; 19 or 20 above lateral line 
to dorsal origin; 16 or 17 postocular to hind preopercle ridge. Scales 
with 24 to 32 parallel vertical striae, mostly continuous over vertical 
axis of scale. 
D. II, 19 or II, 20, first bren ched ray forming long lobe, 
3 to in total head length or 1-2/3 to 1/4/5 in fin base; A. II, 18 
or II, 19, first branched ray 2-f- to 3 in total head or l-l/3 to 1,-2/5 
in fin base; least depth of caudal peduncle 1 to l-l/5 in eye; caudal 
2-2/5 to 3 in total head; pectoral 3-l/3 to 3|; ventral 3-3/5 to 4, 
nearly reaches vent. 
