Check List of Species of Fishes Known From the Philippinearchipelago
Check List of Species of Fishes Known From the Philippinearchipelago
Jordan David Starr
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Capiz, Panay, 1. Calumpit, Bulacan Province, 4. Iloilo, Panay, 5. Malabon, Rizal Province, 4. Dumangas, Iloilo Province, 5. Manila, 3. Molo, Iloilo Province, 8. Cavite, 18. Villa, Iloilo Province, 3. Laguna de Bay, 4. Bintoan, Busuanga, 1. Polo Plantation, Tanjay, Orien- Coron, Busuanga, 14. tal Negros Province, 1. Cebu, 1. San Jose, Antique Province, Pa- Cabalian, . Leyte, 2. nay, 4. Davao, Mindanao, 10. Most of these were compared with the type at Stanford Uni- versity and, though there is so...me variation among them, all are readily placed here. This is a well-marked species previously known only from the type specimen from Cavite. Genus 31. VAIMOSA Jordan and Seale Vavmosa JORDAN and SEALE, Fishes of Samoa, Bull. Bur. Fisheries 25 (1906) 395. This genus is separated from Rhinogobius and Gnatholepis by having the opercles covered with large scales, but the cheeks naked ; the body is covered with large ctenoid scales, 26 to 38 in a longitudinal series, extending forward on the nape to the eyes ; the anterior ones usually large, rarely smaller than those on the sides; the scales on the nape and opercles may appear cycloid but the microscope shows them to be ctenoid ; the teeth are very small to microscopic, in bands of three to five rows in each jaw, without canines ; the tip of the tongue is rounded or subtruncate ; the dorsals are separated, often widely, the vertical fins rather short and low in our species, the caudal peduncle long; the caudal longer or shorter than the head, variously shaped; no silky free rays on the upper part of the pectoral.
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