. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Seill <b Co., Ltd. A Monograph of the Marine Fishes of South Africa. 651 Length.—Up to 250 mm. Colour.—Bluish, silvery below, with a broad, golden-yellow bandfrom opercle to tail above the lateral line, fins rosy, ventrals white,caudal with a longitudinal dark bar along each lobe, pectoral with ablack axillary spot. Locality.—Natal coast. Distribution.—Indian seas, East Indies. The closely allied species chrysozona C. and V. appears to be con-stantly distinguished by the golden lateral band running below thelatera
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Seill <b Co., Ltd. A Monograph of the Marine Fishes of South Africa. 651 Length.—Up to 250 mm. Colour.—Bluish, silvery below, with a broad, golden-yellow bandfrom opercle to tail above the lateral line, fins rosy, ventrals white,caudal with a longitudinal dark bar along each lobe, pectoral with ablack axillary spot. Locality.—Natal coast. Distribution.—Indian seas, East Indies. The closely allied species chrysozona C. and V. appears to be con-stantly distinguished by the golden lateral band running below thelateral line, and the caudal lobes having black tips but no longitudinalbars. Gen. Ltjtianus Bl. Snappers. 1790. Bloch, Ichth., vol. iv, p. 107 (later spelling : Lutjanus). 1828. Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. ii, p. 410(Diacope non Hiibn. Lepidoptera). 1828. Id., ibid., p. 441 (Mesoprion). 1850. Cantor, Malay Fish., p. 12 (Genyoroge). 1911. Jordan and Thompson, Proc. Nat. Mus., vol. xxxix,p. 445 (synonymy). Teeth in villiform bands in jaws, with u
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