slits 
, _Utv e 
- 
,\ 
f 4 f o 9 
6/4 
ftm if itmita»i>«>ii«*ll nKHurmn r nw— 
i**rsf 
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f.!^s5 
Mouth, moderate or small, inclined or 
6olique. Chin with pores, rarei'^srith small rudimentary barbel at symphysis. 
Teeth villiformj outer premaxi Imky row enlarged, sometimes inner mandibular 
row enlarged; no distinct canys. Interorbital rather wide, slightly convex. 
Gill rakers rather few, sho|ft§ Pseudobranchiae present. Air bladder present. 
Pyloric coeca few or in ijgpbrate number. Scales ctenoid, extend over head 
and snout,more or lessjggrer vertical fins and mostly adherent. Lateral line 
BA 1 
with simple, bifurcate or branched tubes. Dorsals as 2 deeply separated fins, 
first of 9 or 10 spin'f jgao ined at least basally with. 23 to 32 soft rays. Anal 
with 1 or 2 spines, 6 to 
?nd spine variably ’weak or strong. Caudal 
variably with age truncate, cuneate or' 
er or first ventral ray often as prolonged fi 
The largest group of the Indian and-West Pa 
Pectoral rays 16 to 20. Out- 
ecially in young, 
sciaenids, also 
"-vitM 
with fewer species in the tropical Atlantic. As here unddptood they differ 
. ( I cb not accept 
this eenus. 
It appears to me formal designation of type is surely a JpLori claim in all 
■ i »»ssMauiWi«dt 
cases. Bola Buchanan-. Hamilton car .wot be admitted as aJKsiaenid as its tauto- 
w 
nymic genotype Cyprinus bola -is a cyprinid 
t r' 
yV'A * j 
■JJ / 
■ Johnius smoyensis (Bleqjgp|r) 
/ v : 
Pseudosciaena cmoyensis BLEAKGk, bederla$» Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 1, 
1863, p. 144/ Qsao^; vol. 2,: (l865, p. $|j|( Amoy). 
Sciaena amoyensis STnTMDACHMLR, Denkschr.. Agm, Wiss. Wien, Lath.-nat. Kl. 
vol. 59, pt. 1, 1392, p. 362 (Shanghai) 
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