Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon

by Sir James Emerson Tennent

List of Ceylon Fishes.

In the following list, the Acanthopterygian fishes of Ceylon has been prepared for me by Dr. G&ÜNTHER, and will be found the most complete which has appeared of this order. I am also indebted to him for the correction of the list of Malacopterygians, which I hope ere long to render still more extended, as well as that of the Cartilaginous fishes.

I. OSSEOUS.

ACANTHOPTERYGII

• BERYCIDÆ, Lowe.
  • Myripristis murdjan, Forsk.
  • Holocentrum rubrum, Forsk.
    • spiniferum, Forsk.
    • diadema, Lacép.

• PERCIDÆ, Günther.
  • *Lates calcarifer, Bl.
  • Serranus louti, Forsk.
    • pachycentrum, C. & V.
    • guttatus, Bl.
    • Sonneratii, C. & V.
    • angularis, C.& V.
    • marginalis, Bl.
    • hexagonatis, Forsk.
    • flavocoeruleus, Lacép.
    • biguttatus, C. & V.
    • lemniscatus, C. & V.
    • Amboinensis, Bleek.
    • boenak, C. & V.
  • Grammistes orientalis, Bl.
  • Genyoroge Sebæ, C. & V.
    • Bengalensis, C. & V.
    • marginata, C. & V.
    • rivulata, C. & V.
    • gibba, Forsk.
    • spilura, Benn.
  • Mesoprion aurolineatus, C. & V.
    • rangus, C. & V.
    • quinquelineatus, Rüpp.
    • Johnii, Bl.
    • annularis, C. & V.
  • ?Priacanthus Blochii, Bleek.
  • Ambassis n. sp., Günth.
    • Commersonii, C. & V.
    • thermalis, C. & V.
  • Apogon Ceylonicus, C. & V.
    • thermalis, C. & V.
    • annularis, Rüpp. Var. roseipinnis.
  • Chilodipterus quinquelineatus, C. & V.

• PRISTIPOMATIDÆ, Günther.
  • Dules Bennettii, Bleek.
  • *Therapon servus, Bloch.
    • *trivittatus, Buch. Ham.
    • quadrilineatus, Bl.
  • *Helotes polytænia, Bleek.
  • Pristipoma hasta, Bloch.
    • maculatum, Bl.
  • Diagramma punctatum, Ehrenb.
    • orientale, Bl.
    • poecilopterum, C. & V.
    • Blochii, C. & V.
    • lineatum, Gm.
    • Radja, Bleek.
  • Lobotes auctorum, Günth.
  • Gerres oblongus, C & V.
  • Scolopsia Japonicus, Bl.
    • bimaculatus, Rüpp.
    • monogramma, k. & v. H.
  • Synagris furcosus, C. & V.
  • Pentapus aurolineatus, Lacép.
  • Smaris balteatus, C. & V.
  • Cæsio coerulaureus, Lacép.

• MULLIDÆ, Gray.
  • Upeneus tæniopterus, C. & V.
    • Indicus, Shaw.
    • cyclostoma, Lacép.
  • Upe. trifasciatus, Lacép.
    • cinnabarinus, C. & V.
  • Upeneoides vittatus, Forsk.
    • tragula.
    • sulphureus, C. & V.
  • Mulloides flavolineatus, Lacép.
    • Ceylonicus, C. & V.

• SPARIDÆ, Günther.
  • Lethrinus frenatus, C. & V.
    • cinereus, C. & V.
    • fasciatus, C. & V.
    • ?ramak, Forsk.
    • opercularis, C. & V.
    • erythrurus, C. & V.
  • Pagrus spinifer, Forsk.
  • Crysophrys hasta, Bl.
  • ?Pimelepterus Ternatensis, Bleek.