The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma and Ceylon . In this instance we see a preoperculum with a strong serrated spine at its angle somewhatas observed in the genus Priacanthus, the development of which, and the rate at whichit becomes atrophied with age being most probably factors m the amount of protuberance atthat spot in older fish. There is likewise a small spine on the sub-opercle, whde it is verypeculiar that the ventral spine is strongly serrated internally similar to a This fi-ure is from a spec
The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma and Ceylon . In this instance we see a preoperculum with a strong serrated spine at its angle somewhatas observed in the genus Priacanthus, the development of which, and the rate at whichit becomes atrophied with age being most probably factors m the amount of protuberance atthat spot in older fish. There is likewise a small spine on the sub-opercle, whde it is verypeculiar that the ventral spine is strongly serrated internally similar to a This fi-ure is from a specimen sent by ilr. Thurston from Madras, and delineated thenatural sfze, 3 inches long, but in which the fifth dorsal spme is abnormally shortened,giving somewhat the appearance of two spinous dorsal fins. The serrated spme at theano-le of the preopercle is now only represented by coarse denticnlations the ventral spmeis smooth, and the fish has assumed the form it subsequently retams. The colom-s are notyet similar tothose of the adult, the bands along the body change as described underSerranus morrhua and the black bands on the caudal fin are eventually represented bymore or less black spots (see Plate V, fig. 4).Seekanus polleni. Epmephelus polleni, Bleeker, Fish. Reunion Versl. Kon. Akad. Wet. 2nd Rks. li, p. 33b, andPoisson Madagascar et Reunion, p. 19, t. vii, D. xT?T^, P. 17, V. 1/5, A. 3/9, C. 17, L. 1. 115-120. Length of head 3i, of caudal fin 7, height of body 3f in the total lengtli^ Eyes-diameter 6 in the length of the head, H diameters from
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