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(AMS), F. H. Talbot and S. Beresford; California Academy of Sciences 

 (CAS), W. I. Follett and W. N. Eschmeyer; British Museum (Natural 

 History) (BMNH), P. H. Greenwood and A. C. Wheeler; Field 

 Museum of Natural History (FMNH), L. P. Woods and P. Sonoda; 

 Hebrew University, Israel (HUI), H. Steinitz; Institut Royal des 

 Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (IRSN), J. P. Gosse; Los Angeles 

 County Museum (LACM), D. K. Caldwell and R. J. Lavenberg; 

 Museo Civico de Storia Naturale (MCSN), E. Tortonese; Natur- 

 historisches Museum, Wien (NMW), P. Kahsbauer; Queensland 

 Museum, Brisbane (QMB), B. Campbell; Rijksmuseum van Natu- 

 urlijke Historie, Leiden (RNH), M. Boeseman; Natur-Museum und 

 Forschungs-Institut Senckenberg (SMF), W. Klausewitz; Division of 

 Systematic Biology, Stanford University (SU), W. C. Freihofer and 

 G. S. Myers; University of Hawaii (UH), W. A. Gosline and R. H. 

 Snider; University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology (UMMZ), R. M. 

 Bailey; United States National Museum (USNM); University of 

 Washington (UW), R. Van Cleave; Western Australian Museum 

 (WAM), R. McKay; Zoologisches Staatsinstitut und Zoologisches 

 Museum, Hamburg (ZSZM), K. Kosswig and W. Ladiges. 



For assistance in the field we are much indebted to J. H. Choat of 

 the University of Queensland, P. Woodhead of the Heron Island 

 Marine Laboratory, and several members of the staff of the Australian 

 Museum. Fanny L. Phillips of the U.S. National Museum executed 

 the illustration. Our colleagues, B. B. Collette and R. H. Gibbs, Jr., 

 critically read the manuscript and offered valuable suggestions for its 

 improvement. Field work for this study was supported by a grant 

 from the Tropical Fish Hobbyist Fund. Other aspects of the research 

 were supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Research Foundation. 



Atrosalarias Whitley 



Atrosalarias Whitley, 1933, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 19, p. 93 [type-species: 

 Salarias phaiosoma Bleeker, by original designation]. — Norman, 1944, Draft 

 synopsis of the orders, families and genera of recent fishes and fish-like 

 vertebrates, p. 451 [synonym of Salarias]. — Schultz and Chapman, 1960, 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 202, pt. 2, p. 304 [in key].— Springer, 1966, Copeia, 

 no. 1, p. 59 [nature of interopercle]. 



Atrosalarias fuscus (Ruppell) 

 Plate 1 



Salarias fuscus Ruppell, 1835, Neue Wirbel. Faun. Abyssin., Fische Roth. Meer., 

 vol. 1, pt. 4, p. 135 [Massaua; original description; figured]. — Gunther, 1861, 

 Catalogue Acanthopterygian fishes, vol. 3, p. 245 [synonymy; description; 

 distribution].— Bleeker, 1865a, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 2, p. 191 [Piru; 

 Wahai; S. phaiosoma Bleeker a synonym]; 1865b, ibid, p. 293 [Amboina]. — 

 Day, 1870, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 695 [Nicobars]. — Klunzinger, 1871, 



