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Hawaiian Fishes 



This file fish is yellowish in color over its body and is marked with 

 many irregular, closely set, black spots. The cheek is marked by diagonal 

 black lines and the tail is usually of a brilliant red color and spotted with 

 black. It reaches a length of about six inches. 



This file fish is found throughout Hawaii and its Leeward Islands. 



Oili-lepa or Ohua 



129-2 Cantherines sandivichiensis (Quoy & Gaimard) 



From Jordan & Evermann 



This file fish is a brownish black color over its entire body. The soft 

 dorsal and anal fins are orange in color. It reaches a length of about 

 fourteen inches. 



This fish is distributed from Mauretius through the East Indies, 

 Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia as far as the Hawaiian Islands. 



File Fish 



129-3 Cantherines pardalis (Ruppell) 

 This species is brownish in color over most of its body. The dorsal 



and anal fins are lighter in color while the caudal fin is dark. It reaches 



a length of at least eight inches. 



This file fish is distributed from the Red Sea and Zanzibar, to the 



