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Labrisomtts heilneri Parr (not of Nichols), Bull. Bingham Oceanog. Coll., vol. 3, art. 4, 



1930, p. 126 — West Caicos and Turks Islands, Bahamas. 

 Malacoctenus bucciferus Fowler (not of Poey), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 



82, 1930, p. 275 — Grenada. 

 Malacoctenus bondi Fowler, ibid., p. 275 — Grenada. 

 Labrisomus bucciferus Longley (not of Poey), Carnegie Inst. Wash. Year Book No. 32, 



1933, P- ^94- 



This blenny was not taken at Tortugas. 



In small fish up to 57 mm. or so there is on the opercle a dark spot half the 

 size of the eye which is sometimes semiocellated. In larger specimens it is less 

 conspicuous. For the rest, this is an irregularly banded fish, in appearance most 

 like Labrisomus kalisherae. Distinguishable in structure, however, by the pres- 

 ence of scales in mid-line before dorsal, and by the filaments of the nuchal 

 combs, which, instead of being in a single series, are more or less in three tufts. 



Variation in supports of the vertical fins in material examined is shown in 

 table 10. Pectoral rays almost constantly 13; scales 7 or 8-50 or 51-14, present on 



TABLE 9 

 Variation in dorsal and anal fin formulas in Labrisomus bucciferus 



