Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 124 1968 Number 3636 



Four New Fishes of the Genus Parapercis 



with Notes on Other Species 



from the Indo-Pacific Area 



(Family Mugiloididae) 



By Leonard P. Schultz 

 Senior Zoologist, Department of Vertebrate Zoology 



Mugiloidid fishes of the genus Parapercis from the International 

 Indian Ocean Expeditions (IIOE), 1964, the Te Vega Expeditions 

 (TVE), 1963 and 1965, and the Smithsonian Institution Pacific Ocean 

 Biological Survey (SIPOBS), 1964, together with other specimens in 

 the United States National Museum form the basis of this paper. 

 Among this material four new species were discovered and are de- 

 scribed herein. 



Dr. George E. Cantwell (1964), who revised the genus Parapercis, 

 recognized 26 species. Not included in Cantwell's analysis of species are 

 P. okamurai Kamohara (1960) and P. kamoharai Schultz (1966). 



Dr. Chuichi Aranga (Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Japan), 

 who collected the types of P. kamoharai, informed me through cor- 

 respondence that the type-locality was incorrect as published. He 

 writes that he collected the types on the "Southwest Coast of Kii 

 Peninsula, Wakayama Prefecture, south of Osaka Prefecture. This 

 species inhabits the coastal waters, but it has never been collected 

 from the inner part of any bay." 



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