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HENRY W. FOWLER
Malaya, East Indies*, Siam, Philippines*, Melanesia*, Micronesia Polynesia*). Likely Mugil melancranus Richardson may have been intended for this species, though its description is very imperfect, neglecting not only the proportions but also the fin rays. It is noted as follows:
Depth 5 in total; head 5. Upper lip rather fleshy. Mouth large, teeth visible. Slender maxillary exposed. Scales 37, transversely 11. Soft dorsal and anal scaly. Caudal almost entirely scaly. Pectoral with long axillary scale. Back greenish grey, sides silvery, with yellowish grey line through middle of each row of scales. Top of head, circle around eye and borders of gill pieces dark oil green. Pectoral orpiment orange with blue mark on scaly base and other fins greenish grey. Length 195 mm.
Mugil macrolepis Andrew Smith.
Mugil macrolepis Andrew Smith, Illustr. Zool. South Africa, 1849, no pagination, pl. 28, fig. 2. Rivers and fresh water lakes of South Africa.- Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 595 (Shanghai), p. 603 (Hong Kong).
Mugil troschelii Rutter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1897, p. 70 (Swatow).
Liza troscheli Reeves, Journ. Pan Pac. Res. Inst., vol. 2, No. 3, July- September 1927, p. 8 (reference).
Liza troschelii Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, January 1931, p. 105 (reference).
Depth 3 to 34/5; head 33 to 34/5, width 12. Snout 33/5 to 4 in head; eye 33 to 334, 11⁄2 in interorbital, gelatinous lids only as narrow cutaneous rim; lips thin, smooth; maxillary 47/8 in head; interorbital 2 2/5 to 2 4/5, broadly convex. Scales 30 to 33; transversely 11 or 12, predorsal 19 or 20. Dorsal IV-1, 8 or 9; Anal III, 9; caudal emarginate; pectoral 1% in head, without axillary scale; ventral 134. Back olivaceous, pale to whitish below. Dorsal and pectoral pale brown, other fins whitish. Length
125 mm.
Swatow, Hong Kong, Shanghai (South Africa, East Africa, Madagascar, Seychelles, Ceylon, East Indies, Philippines*, Formosa, Pescadores Islands, Japan, Melanesia, Micronesia*, Polynesia*).
Mugil heamatocheilus Schlegel.
Keuen yu (dog's fish), Hwang we tze (yellow tail parer), Hwang ne tsae (yellow tailed), Won ne tsai, Chai ue.
Mugil haematocheilus Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., pts. 7-9, 1845, P. 135, pl. 72, fig .2. Nagasaki.-Richardson, Ichth. China and Japan, 1846, p. 249 (seas of China).
Mugil haematochilus Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (reference).-Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1880, p. 923 (Ningpo).-Reeves, Journ. Pan Pac. Res. Inst., vol. 2, No. 3, July-September 1927, p. 8 (name).—Sowerby, Nat. Manchuria, vol. 4, 1930, p. 157 (Tientsin, Peking, Pei tai Ho, Chin wang Tao).
The Hong Kong Naturalist.
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