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as brilliant red (p. 61). However, he indicated 

 the specimen was collected inshore. A color trans- 

 formation from blue-silver hues to red may be 

 very rapid with change of habitat. 



P. altus lives primarily in deeper water in dark 

 crevasses of rocks. As pinks and reds become in- 

 visible in deep water, the short bigeye may pos- 

 sibly take on this coloration as camouflage. Dr. 

 John E. Randall, first in conversation with Jack 

 W. Gehringer in June 1960, and later by letter 

 dated September 16, 1960, stated that closely re- 

 lated Priacanthus arenatus Cuvier seen just off the 

 bottom in 60 feet of water on a reef at St. John, 

 Virgin Islands, appeared a neutral gray to the eye 

 and in a color motion picture film. Randall 

 stated that on transport to the surface, the fish 

 was a deep red, but tliat this change was an arti- 

 fact of the loss of the red end of the spectrum at 

 60 feet and that a flash photograph of the fish at 

 that depth in reality shows them to be dark red at 

 all times. 



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