. A catalog of the fishes known from the waters of Korea. Fishes. 36 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM common food-fish, but not highly valued, being reputed to be rather coarse. It reaches a length of about four feet. The species has not been recorded since the time of Temminck and Schlegel, who knew it only from a drawing by Burger, a drawing perfectly recognizable. The existence of the species has been questioned by Steindachner, and by Jordan and Thompson. The following are the field notes of Dr. Jordan (Seoul Market). Dark dusty gray in life. Dorsal and caudal black; a faint, dark, axillary
. A catalog of the fishes known from the waters of Korea. Fishes. 36 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM common food-fish, but not highly valued, being reputed to be rather coarse. It reaches a length of about four feet. The species has not been recorded since the time of Temminck and Schlegel, who knew it only from a drawing by Burger, a drawing perfectly recognizable. The existence of the species has been questioned by Steindachner, and by Jordan and Thompson. The following are the field notes of Dr. Jordan (Seoul Market). Dark dusty gray in life. Dorsal and caudal black; a faint, dark, axillary blotch. Preopercle with long, slender, flexible points. Body slender; caudal rhombic; scales loose. Outer teeth in both jaws equally enlarged; head pointed; jaws subequal; maxillary in head. Pectoral long, 2 in head; anal spines very small. Gill-rakers 10 + 12, including rudiments; all of them short and thick; dorsal scaleless. Dorsal X, I, 29; anal II, 7; scales 75. All the dorsal spines low, the third highest. 131. Sciaena albifiora (Richardson). "Akaguchi," "; Scicena tenlo Basilewsky, Ichthyographia Chinee Borealis, p. 220. Gulf of Pechili. Port Arthur (Abbott); Fusan, Chinnampo (No. 4357a, 4372a) ("Korea" 4519a).. Fig. 27. Scicena albijlora (Richardson). (After Jordan and Thompson, Proc. U. S. N. M., Vol. XXXIX, p. 250.) Next to the red tai (Pagrosomus major) this is the commonest fish at Fusan, being salted in great numbers. In life it is lustrous brassy, or coppery in color, hence called "akaguchi" or red croaker. It is fairly well figured and very poorly described by Basilewsky as Scicena tenlo. The slight differences separating the Japanese species Scicena mitsukurii from this species seem to hold in our Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the o
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