Carnegie Inst. Washington Pub. 535 — Longley and Hildebrand 



Plate 19 



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Fig. 1. Pseud upeneus maculatus, red goatfish. This fish feeds by day, and is commonly 

 seen probing in loose sand with its sensitive barbels for the small animals on which it subsists. 





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Fig. 2. Pseudupeneus maculatus, red goatfish (lower left), digging for food, with Ocyurus 

 chrysurus, yellowtail (upper), a parrot fish, Scarus sp. (left center), and a slippery dick, 

 Halichoeres bivittatus (right center), ready to seize any animal rooted out that may escape 

 the goatfish. 



