712 
^PPP»»*y» shot with go Id fthd purple. First dorsal with upper half 
black. Soft dorsal, caudal andpuial dark,externally and last fin with dark 
1 Q A 7 O ( s 
I o4 / o y 
basal band. (Day.) 
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India, Burma, ; J$itlacca, Indo China, China. Also reported from the 
Philippines by KLera,j^fQuite likely Corvina grypota Richardson may be a syn¬ 
onym. It is incomwetely noticed as follows: 
Maxillarflislips below preorbital its entire length; upper teeth 
falls 
villiform, with strori 
)ulate outer even row; lower teeth villiform; 
v • 
minute pores on snout, 5 large pi 
set slender denticles. 
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of mandible; preopercle with wide 
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Scales tender, nacry, very deciduous; < ®:eek and mandible scaly. 
Lateral line of simple tubes, boldly arched antejporly. 
D. X, I, 29; A. II, 7 or 8, second sdjfne n ot strong, little shorter 
than soft rays; caudal partly rhomboidal; vej»ral with short filamentous tip. 
Mostly silvery, suae yellow tin-yjjpjn fore part of anal and paired 
fins. Length 175 mm. 
n:- 
Johnius tr ; g|pycephalus (Bleeker) * 
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Corvina trachycephalus BLE 
1850, p. 269/ ^Bandjemasej 
Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 1, 
-/n't 
in)rivers (Borneo 
Sciaena trachycephalus GUNTHER, Cal 
t9& (compiled). - SCHMELTZ, Cat. MuslS||deffroy, vol. 4, 1869, p. 16 
f 
m 
sh. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 
if. 
/W\ 
(Saigon). 
' .rqi 
Johnius trachycephalus BLEEKisK, Verh. Kon. «§Ld. ^et. Amsterdam, vol. 
77 
14, ser. 3, '1874, p. 41 ( Sumatra; BorneciM Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland 
f \ J ^ ;, r Wjm 
vol. 9, 1877, pi. (3)386, fig. 1; 
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