1373 * 
Eyes on right side* Mouth curved* snout often overhanging and 
mouth cleft forming hook* Minute teeth in jaws of left side* Front nos¬ 
tril of colored side at end of shorter or larger tube* posterior ones 
covered by flap; nostril of blind side more or less hidden by cutaneous 
flap* ^ill membranes united, free from isthmus* Scales ctenoid on col¬ 
ored side, cycloid or ctenoid on blind side* Straight axial lateral line 
on both sides of body* Scales on left side of head often formed as cutan¬ 
eous filaments* Lower lip of colored side usually fringed* Dorsal begins 
on snout* Dorsal and anal confluent with caudal* Rays of vertical fins 
simple or divided at tips* Pectoral with well developed rays, with short 
base and free from bronchiostegal membranes; or with broad base, rudiment¬ 
ary rays and connection through a folded membrane with upper part of 
branchiostegal membranes, forming kind of funnel-like access to branchial 
cavity* Ventrals short, broad based, free from each other and anal; or 
right ventral connected with low membrane at its hind end with genital 
papilla or with anal* 
Indian, and Western Pacific Oceans, some species entering fresh 
water* I accept the name Bra chi rus Swainson for these fishes, notwith- 
standing the contention that Brachyumns of the same author is a name with 
similar meaning* It is spelled differently and therefore Brachyrus may 
be allowed distinct* Jordan and Goss in 1889 make the mistake of citing 
Pleuronectes zebra Bloch as the type of Brachirus, therefore not following 
Swain’s designation of 1883, which they also refer to* 
