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Hawaiian Fishes 



body is marked with faint, branching, longitudinal lines. It reaches a 

 length of two feet. 



This fish is distributed through the East Indies, along Queensland, 

 through Japan, and occurs as far eastward as the Hawaiian Islands. 



Wrasse Fish 



113-4 Verriculus sanguineus Jordan & Evermann 



Drawn from Jordan & Evermann 



This wrasse fish is deep red in color. The edges of the mouth are 

 trimmed with golden stripes which extend as a single golden stripe 

 beneath the eye. A golden stripe extends from the eye to the tail. The 

 tail fin is bright yellow in color. This fish reaches a length of about 

 eight inches. 



It is found only in the Hawaiian Islands. 



Wrasse Fish 



113-5 Labroides dimidiatns (Valenciennes) 

 This fish is marked by a line running from the snout through the 



eye to the tail and there widening to include the entire caudal fin. 



Another stripe runs from the snout to the base of the dorsal fin. This 



species reaches a length of three inches. 



This fish is distributed from the Red Sea and Mauretius through the 



Andaman Islands, the East Indies, the Philippines, Melanesia, Micronesia, 



and Polynesia as far as the Hawaiian Islands. 



Opule 



113-6 Anampses godeffroyi Gunther 

 The body of this wrasse fish is brownish red in color and is marked 

 with about one dozen pale horizontal stripes and other small markings. 

 It will reach a length of about twelve inches. 



