The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma and Ceylon . separated by a deep notch from thesecond dorsal, which last is not confluent with the caudal. Colours—anterior half _ of thebody so far as to the origin of second dorsal fin of a deep blue (smalt), posterior halfcarmine-orange. Dorsal fins sepia tinged with smalt, base of second dorsal orange : caudaland anal orange tipped and margined with sepia : pectoral smalt: ventrals whitish. Habitat.—^A specimen 1| inches long from Saddle Island, Kyoukphyoo, Arracan. Page 33
The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma and Ceylon . separated by a deep notch from thesecond dorsal, which last is not confluent with the caudal. Colours—anterior half _ of thebody so far as to the origin of second dorsal fin of a deep blue (smalt), posterior halfcarmine-orange. Dorsal fins sepia tinged with smalt, base of second dorsal orange : caudaland anal orange tipped and margined with sepia : pectoral smalt: ventrals whitish. Habitat.—^A specimen 1| inches long from Saddle Island, Kyoukphyoo, Arracan. Page 336. Add—Genus Acanthoclinus, Jenyns. Six braiicMostegals: jJseudohrancMcB. Body elongate. Cleft of mouth of moderate united beneath the throat. Teeth in jaivs, vomer and palate. Dorsal Jin single,occupying most of the length of the bach, it is chiefly compiosed of spines: anal long, andhaving more spines than rays. Ventral jugular consisting of one spine and three rays:caudal distinct. Scales cycloid: lateral-line present or absent. No distribution.—Coasts of India and New 1. Acanthoclinus , Proc. Zool, Soc. 18S8, p. 2Qi. SUPPLEMENT, 1888. 799 B. vi, D. 21/4, P. 16, V. 1/3, A. 10/4, C. 17, L. 1. 40, L. tr. 14. Length of head 4, of caudal fin 5, height of body 3 in the total length. %es—diameter1/6 of the length of the head, 1 diameter fi-om the end of the snout, and f of a diameterapart. Cleft of mouth somewhat oblique, the maxilla reaching posteriorly to beneath thehind third of the orbit. Two strong opercular spines. Teeth—in jaws, vomer, and palateFins— dorsal spines strong, the fins not united with the caudal: pectorals rounded-ventrals long and inserted slightly in front of the base of the pectoral: caudal —cycloid. Lateral-line—absent CoZojtrs—brownish-black with a milk-white bandcommencing on the front end of the dorsal fin, and extending to the snout: a white bandover the free po
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