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Check-List Of Species Of Fishes Known From The Philippine Archipelago
CheckList Of Species Of Fishes Known From The Philippine Archipelago Author:David Starr Jordan CHECK-LIST OF THE SPECIES OF FISHES KNOWN FROM THE PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO. By DAVID STAEB JORDAN and ROBERT EARL RICHARDSO In the present paper is given a list of all species of fishes positively known at the date of January 1, 1909, as inhabiting the waters of the Philippine Archipelago. A complete bibliography of the ichthyology of the Philipp... more »ines is given in the Appendix. The writers are indebted to Mr. Alvin Seale and to Mr. Richard Crit- tendcn McGregor for important aid on the preliminary work of tho preparation of this catalogue 830 species are included, a large number, which probably represents less than half of the actual fish fauna of these Islands. INTRODUCTION. The list has been drawn up without reference to the lists of Elera, Gogorza, and Palacky noted in the bibliography. A list of those species of Palackys catalogue which are known on no other authority than that of Palacky, Elera, or Gogorza, is appended at the conclusion of the present check-list. In the present list the full reference to the original description is given in case only of those species not noticed or described in Giinthers Catalogue of the Fishes of the British Museum. In the record of geographical distribution which follows the name of each species admitted to the check-list, the name by which the species was designated by an author is given only in case the specific name ised was different from the one here employed. Class SELACHII. Family ORECTOLOBIDE. CHILOSCYLLIUM Miiller Henle. 1. Chiloscyllium indicum Gmelin. Manila Gttnther, A. Family CARCHARIIDE. SCOLIODON .Miiller Henle. 2. Scoliodon walbeehmii Bleeker. Manila Jordan Richardson. 3. Scoliodon acutus Riippell. Manila Jordan Scale, A. Family SPHYRNTM. 3PHYRNA Rafinesque. 4. Sphyrna zygaena Linnaeus. Cavite Jordan Seale, A. Family RHINOBATIDE. RHYNCHOBATU3 MUller Henle. 5. Rhynchobatus djiddensis Forskal. Cavite Jordan Seale, A. Family DASYATIM. DA8YATIS Rafinesque. 6. Dasyatis kuhli MUller Henle...« less