v 
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b 6 9 
Scales ctem LdL^g gaBj^geebly so, 75 to 80 in lateral line: 14 to 17 
above, below. A Tubes iiifJlateral line arborescent on front part of 
V?‘ •*: • 
body with age, trifurcate on:||phd part* 
D. X, 27 to 31,^pl rst spine short, third, or third and fourth longest J 
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A, II, 9, spines weak.*5lP 
•-'wiSsSR. 
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Silvery, Jgpuish above, belly white. Mges of both jaws and opercle 
bright yellow, fir^^ayish, anals and ventrals white. Black axillary spot. 
Reaches 1000 ram. (Barf.a 
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A valued food fish. 1 follow’ 
.frican «.nd Australian forms are the s?.r.~ 
:„d in his contention that South 
C-enus Pseudosciaena Bijeker “C , 
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'’oolvAto 
! 
• ■ >., -a •. 
s* 
< 
\ 
seudosciaena ^LbhKRR, iiederlahd..JKfcls chr. Bierk., vol.l, 1863. n. 142. 
~ ; ? *- / Jgr x - 
■ i (T.ype Pseu_do_sciaena smblycep|@Li-.,KKRR, designated by Jordan, Genera of 
f / 
fishes, pt* 3, 1918, p* 
l 1 Othonias JORDAN and .THdJppN, orthotypic 
y 
Head obtuse, corgjtx, with muciferous cavities. Mouth large, obliouej 
Opercle with simple points Gill rakers 18 on lower branch of first arch. Soft 
fm 
‘ - *&£**£>T. ■ 
dorsal, anal and caudal de^ppy covered with small s cales* Silvery dermal 
glandular organ on ventral sul 
e, one below each scale* Dorsal spines 10, 
rays 27 to 33. Anal spines 2, raySl®, to 9. 
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1 do not accept the two desi^^tions of the al leged genotype by 
Bleeker as neither are contained in the 
L ginal account of ihe genus 
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' Jn^Eleeker, Verh. Ron. Akad. Wet. Amsterda Ha Rev. Sciaen.), vol. 14, 1874, p./£ 
7/ 18>* /^Type Otolithu s macrophthalm us BLblSfflp, orthotypic .J ■ _ 1 
- Bleeker, Arch. Neerland. Sci. Rat. Harlerij§ : vol. 11, 1876, p. 329. vType 
Sciaena aquila RISSO, orthotypic. ^ % ' — V* -J 
