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Hemirhamphus sajori Sowerby, Nat. in Manchuria, vol. 4, 1930, p. 162 (Pei Tai Ho, South Manchuria; Kiangsu Province in Yangtze Delta).
Hyporhamphus sajori Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, 1905, p. 203 (Gensan and Fusan).-Mori, Hand List Manchurian Vertebr., 1927, p. 176 (compiled).—Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, January 1931, p. 87 (compiled).
Belone microstoma Basilewsky, Nouv. Mem. Soc. Nat. Moscou, vol. 10, 1855, p. 260. Mari prov. Shandun,
Zenarchopterus microstoma Bleeker, Neder. Tijds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873, p. 149 (reference; error).
Zenarchopterus microstoma Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univers., No. 1, January 1931, p. 87 (reference).
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produced. Anal not modified in males. Caudal forked. Pectoral short. Ventral small. Placed well postmedian or much nearer caudal base than gill opening.
broad.
Sea.
Species rather numerous.
Synopsis of the Species.
Figure 12. Hyporhamphus sajori (Schlegel).
HW.F
Depth 10 to 12; head 3% to 44; snout 2 1/5 in head from snout tip; eye 5 4/5 to 6, 2 to 2% in postocular. Gill rakers 8+21.
Scales go to 106 in lateral line, 74 predorsal. Dorsal rays 16; anal 16 or 17; caudal deeply forked. Brownish, white below and silvery white lateral band, which ex- panded below front of dorsal. Beak black. Top of head and upper jaw dusky. Dorsal and caudal dusky, other fins pale. Length 250 mm.
Yangtze Delta, Nanking, Chefoo, Port Arthur, Pei Tai Ho, Korea.—
(Japan).
The imperfect account of Belone microstoma is somewhat as follows: Body rounded, small. Head of Esox brasiliensis Linnaeus. Orbit triangular, narrow. Upper jaw short, lanceolate, lower longer. Jaw teeth minute. Body scaly, Fins short, Dorsal and anal opposite, equal.
Back whitish, margin dusky.
Caudal entire. Ventrals well posterior. low yellowish white. Length 237 mm.
HEMIRAMPHUS Cuvier.
Half Beaks.
Be-
(China).
a. Hemiramphus. Triangular part of upper jaw broader than long.
far. a1. Rhynchorhamphus. Triangular part of upper jaw longer than
georgii. Hemiramphus far (Forskal). Figure 13.
Esox for Forskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, pp. 13, 67. Lohaja, Red
Hemirhamphus far Blecker, Nederl. Tijds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873, p. 149
Hemiramphus far Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univers., No. 1, January 1931, p. 86 (reference).
Depth 6 4/5 to 73; head 2 to 22/5; snout 2% to 3 in head from snout tip; eye 334 to 4; interorbital 378; eye 12/5 to 13/5 in postorbital. Gill rakers 8 or 9+22 to 24. Scales 50 to 52 in lateral line, 32 to 34 prc- dorsal. Dorsal rays 12 to 14; anal 10 to 12; pectoral 11 to 13; ventral 6; caudal forked. Yellowish, darker above. Silvery white lateral band, border- ed above by bluish streak. Along cach side of back 4 to 9 equidistant black vertical blotches. Fins pale, dorsal and caudal with more or less dusky ter- minally. Reaches 500 mm,
H.W.F
Type
Hemiramphus Cuvier, Régne Animal, vol. 2, 1817, p. 186. Esox brasiliensis Linnaeus, designated by Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadel- phia, 1863, p. 273-
Body rather robust, sides compressed or somewhat flattened. Upper jaw very short, lower produced into a long slender beak, bordered with mem- brane. Beak short in young, longer with age. Premaxillaries form triangular plate with teeth fitting against toothed portion of mandible. Teeth feeble, mostly tricuspid. Air bladder cellular, sometimes with many parti- tions. Dorsal longer than anal, little advanced and last ray more or less
The Hong Kong Naturalist.
Figure 13. Hemiramphus far (Forskal).
China. (Red Sea, East Africa, Zanzibar*, India, East Indies*, Philippines*, Riu Kiu, Australia, Melanesia*, Polynesia*).
Easily distinguished by the prominent contrasted back vertical blotches along the side of the body.
Hemiramphus georgit Valenciennes. Figure 14.
Hemiramphus georgii Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 19, 1840, p. 27, pl. 555. Mahé Bay, Coromandel.-Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 603 (Hong Kong).
Hemiramphus cantori Wu, Contr. Biol. Lab, Sci. Soc. China, vol. 5, No. 4, 1929, p. 65, fig. 53 (Amoy).
December 1932.