RANDALL: SURVEY OF CIGUATERA AT MARSHALL ISLANDS 



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Figure 15. — Epinephelus fuscoguttatus, 551 mm SL, 5.9 kg, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. 



Enewetak were examined. Four were empty, one 

 had an octopus, one had fish remains, and the last 

 contained unidentified tissue which appeared to 

 be cephalopod in origin. A specimen 408 mm SL 

 from the Red Sea had crab remains in its stomach. 



Epinephelus hoedtii (Bleeker) (Figure 16): 

 Schultz in Schultz and collaborators (1953) de- 



scribed this fish as new from the Marshall Islands, 

 naming it E. kohleri. It is relatively deep bodied 

 and has a slightly emarginate to truncate caudal 

 fin. He differentiated it from "... all of the 'var- 

 ieties' of flavocaeruleus described by Boulenger in 

 having the body spotted with dark blotches in ad- 

 dition to tiny dark specks." Although more study is 

 needed of the complex of forms which Boulenger 



Figure 16. — Epinephelus hoedtii, 319 mm SL, Enewetak, Marshall Islands. 



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