Hawaiian Fishes 



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Uu 



63-16 Myripristis pralinitts Cuvier 



Drawn from Jordan !j Evermann 



This squirrel fish is a reddish color and is marked with a black stripe 

 on its opercle. It will reach a length of about eight inches. This fish is 

 an Indo-Malay and Pacific Ocean species and is distributed through all 

 of the warm tropical waters from New Guinea to Easter Island and from 

 Samoa to the Leeward Islands of the Hawaiian Archipelago. It is not a 

 common fish in Hawaiian waters. 



Scale's Squirrel Fish or Uu 



63-17 Myripristis sealei Jenkins 



Drawn from Jordan & Evermann 



