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A Synopsis of the Fishes of China

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Mugil crenilabis öur Forskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, pp. xiv, 74.

Mugil oeur Rutter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1897, p. 70 (Swatow).--Wu, Contrib. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, vol. 5, No. 4, 1929, p. 78, fig. 62 (Amoy).-Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, Jan. 1931, p. 104 (reference).

Mugil cephalotus (not Valenciennes) Cantor, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 9, 1842, p. 484 (Chusan).-Günther, Cat. Fish, Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 419, fig. (head) (Amoy, China, Chusan).—Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (reference).-Peters, Monatsh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1880, p. 923 (Ningpo).—Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom., ser. 7, vol. 5, 1881, p. 106 (Swatow).

Mugil japonicus Richardson, Ichth. China and Japan, 1846, p. 247 (seas of China).-Bleeker, Nederl. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (name). Mugil macrolepidotus (not Rüppell) Richardson, Ichth. China and Japan, 1846, p. 249 (China Seas?).-Journ, Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, vol. 13, 1866 (1868), p. 244 (Hong Kong).

Mugil dobula Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, 1865, p. 224 (Hong Kong). -Bleeker, Nederl. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (name).-Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, Jan. 1931, p. 104 (reference).

Depth 32 to 43; head 3 to 4. Snout 334 to 48 in head; eye 3 1/5 to 4 4/5, adipose lids absent in young, greatly developed with age; maxillary 32 to 48 in head; interorbital 2 to 23, broadly convex. Scales 39 to 46, transversely 13 or 14, predorsal 17 to 28. Dorsal IV-I, 8; Anal III, 8, young II, 9; caudal broadly emarginate; pectoral 13 to 1 2/5 in head; ventral 11⁄2 to 134. Dark olive or bluish dusky on back, sides and below silvery white. Each row of scales on side above with darker Longitudinal streak. Dorsal and caudal grey, other fins whitish. Ventral yellowish. Reaches 760 mm.

China (Red Sea, Arabia, Madagascar, Mauritius, Bourbon, Baluchistan, India, East Indies, Philippines, Formosa, Japan, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, Melanesia, Micronesia*, Polynesia, Hawaii*, California, Chili, also Atlantic*).

Mugil ceramensis Bleeker.

Mugil ceramensis Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Indie, vol. 3, 1852, p. 699. Wahai, Ceram.

Liza ceramensis Reeves, Journ. Pan Pac. Res. Inst., vol. 2, No. 3, July-Sep. 1927, p. 8 (name).--Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, Jan. 1931, p. 105 (reference).

Liza parva Wu, Contrib. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, vol. 5, No. 4, 1929, p. 82, fig. 65. Amoy.

Depth 3 1/6 to 334; head 38 to 3 3/5, width 1 4/5. Snout 334 to 4 in head; eye 334 to 4, 1 2/5 in interorbital, gelatinous lid forming narrow ring around eye; upper lip rather thick, ciliated; maxillary exposed, 31⁄2 in

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