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HENRY W. Fowler

China (Red Sea, Portuguese East Africa, Natal, India, Andamans, Malaya, East Indies, Philippines*, Queensland, New South Wales, Melanesia*, Micronesia*, Polynesia*).

Mugil crenilabis Forskal.

Figure 56.

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Sea.

Figure 56. Mugil crenilabis Forskal.

Mugil crenilabis Forskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, pp. xiv, 73. Red

Mugil lauvergnii Eydoux and Souleyet, Voy. Bonite, Zool., vol. 1, 1841, p. 174, pl. 4, fig. 3. China (Macao).-Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 410 (name).-Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (reference).—Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, January 1931, p. 104 (reference).

Depth 32 to 5; head 4 to 5, width 12/5. Snout 32 in head, blunt; eye 4 1/5, 13 in interorbital, without adipose lids; lips very thick, upper with 4 or 5 rows of papillae, lower with fleshy papillae; maxillary hidden or only end exposed; interorbital 1/5 in head, fat. Scales 38 to 44, transversely 12 or 13, predorsal 20 to 22. Dorsal IV-I, 7 or 8; Anal III, 9 or 10, origin opposite soft dorsal origin; caudal deeply emarginate; pectoral 11/5 in head, without axillary scale. Olive above, white below.

Upper pectoral base with small blackish spot. Length 500 mm.

Macao (Red Sea, Madagascar, Andamans, Nicobars, East Indies, Melanesia*, Micronesia*, Polynesia*). Easily known by its thick papillose lips. The nominal Mugil lauvergnii Eydoux and Souleyet, apparently this species, is shown with the following:

Depth 334; head 43. Snout 4 in head, very short; eye 4; no teeth. Scales 47 (of which 3 apparently on caudal base), transversely 11. Soft dorsal and anal with small scales basally. Dorsal IV-I, 8; Anal III, 10 (figure shows 9); caudal emarginate; pectoral rays 16, very short, 1/4 in head; ventral rays I, 5, fin 14 in head. Above grey olive, below silvery. Fins grey. Length 220 mm.

The Hong Kong Naturalist.