LIST OF FISHES RECORDED FROM OKINAWA OR THE RIU KIU ISLANDS OF JAPAN. By David Starr Jordan and Edwin Chapin Starks, of Stanford University. The Rill Kin Islands, known also as Lu Cliii or Lyii Kyu, in Japa-nese as Okinawa, constitute a group of tropical islets, coral bound and volcanic in origin, extending southward from near the Japanese island of Kiusiu toward the island of Formosa. Little is known of the fish-fauna of tliis region, except that it is fully tro]:)ical, composed largely of forms having a wide distribution among the coral islands of Polynesia, with some species characteristic of the coasts of south-ern Japan and China. While in Japan, in 1900, Messrs. Jordan and Snyder obtained two small but useful collections from these islands. One of these was presented by Mr. Alan Owston, the well-known naturalist of Yoko-nama; the other was purchased from Yonekichi Koneyama, a natural-history dealer in Tokyo. The first collection was made up of small fishes from the reefs of the large island of Katsuudake, on which is Naha, the principal town of Okinawa, and from the smaller island of Ishigaki at its town of Yaeyama. Koneyama's collection came from the Naha market. From the Imperial Museum of Tokyo also several specimens were received, from the island of Miyako (Miyakojima), and from Naha, island of Katsuudake, through the courtesy of Dr. Chiyomatsu Ishikawa. Some others were received from the Imperial University through Dr. Kakichi Mitsukuri, and still others in the Imperial Museum have been recorded by Ishikawa and Matsuiira. The collections in question were brought b}' Profs. Jordan and Snyder to the Museum of Stanford University, and most of the new species have been already noted in previous papers on the fish-fauna of Japan. A series of duplicates is in the L^nited States National Museum. Illustrations of a number of these species have appeared in papers recently published in these Proceedings. Family CHANID^. Chanos chanos (Forskal). Okinawa (Imperial Museum). Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. XXXII— No. 1541. 491
BioStor
