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Material.— Australia (western), Montebello Island: BMNH 1961.8.16.79; 

 Gulf of Thailand, Goh Samet Island, 12°31'38"N, 101°26'46"E: SU 62005; 

 Goh Sak Island, 12°56'37"N, 100°47'33"E: SU 62004; Goh Tao Island, Ao 

 MaeHatBay: SU62007; South ChinaSea, Ilotdu Sud, 10°29'15"N, 108°57'30"E: 

 SU 62003; Biliton Island: RMNH 4778 (includes lectotype of Salarias 

 decussaius) ; Philippine Islands, Mindoro, Puerto Galero: SU 32329; Batangas, 

 Nasugbu: SU 14731; Samar, Mercedes: SU 40640, 40641; Sangir Island: RMNH 

 4778; Marianas Islands, Saipan: SU 62082, USNM 123841, 124335; Guam: 

 USNM 123936, 124118, 139838; New Hebrides, Venui Island, Espiritu Santo: 

 ANSP 91364; Aneiteum: BMNH 1931.7.4.4-5; Niuafou Island: USNM 91940, 

 91941, 91954, 91966; Tutuila Island: USNM 115474; Tau Island: USNM 

 115475, 143788; Samoa: BPBM 5236, USNM 51791 (holotype of Salarias 

 alkinsoni); Tonga Islands, Tongatapu : UH 03082; Tahiti: BMNH 1881.10.18.12. 



Entomacrodus vermiculatus (Valenciennes) 



Plates 2, 3 



Salarias vermiculatus Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1836, Hist. 



Nat. Poissons, vol. 11, p. 301 [Seychelles]. 

 Salarias vermiculatoides Bleeker, 1857, Nat Tijdschr. Nederl. Indie, vol. 13, 



p. 478 [KarangboUong, south coast Java; name only]; 1858, Act. Soc. Sci. 



Indo-Neerl., vol. 3, p. 40 [Trussan, western Sumatra]. 

 "i Salarias reuteri Lenz, 1881, Zool. Anzeig., vol. 93, p. 506 [Nossi-Be, Madagascar]. 



Description. — Segmented dorsal fin rays 15-17 (rarely 15); 

 segmented anal fin rays 16-18 (rarely 16); posteriormost anal pteryg- 

 iophore supporting 1 or 2 external elements (supporting 2 in 78.6 

 percent of specimens) ; total gill-rakers on first arch 20-26 (rarely 

 20); pseudobranchial filaments 8-13 (usually 8-11, probably not 

 increasing in number with increase in size beyond 65 mm SL, table 

 12); vertebrae 34 or 35 (usually 35); supraorbital cirri 2-38, increas- 

 ing in number with increase in SL (table 13); main or longest cirrus 

 with many short branches on both mesial and lateral margins; nape 

 with 1 cirrus on each side (occasionally with small side branches in 

 large specimens) ; predorsal commissural pores 7 to more than 50, 

 increasing in number with increase in SL (table 14) ; at least first 5 

 preopercular pore positions with pairs or multiples of pores; 1-7 

 pores before each anterior nostril, (only 1 specimen with 1 pore before 

 each anterior nostrU), tending to increase in number with increase 

 in SL; lateral line pores terminating on caudal peduncle posterior to 

 level of last dorsal ray (in specimens over 50 mm SL; termination 

 below segmented dorsal ray 14 in one specimen) ; ventral margin of 

 upper lip completely, but weakly and irregularly, crenulate (crenulae 

 difficult to count). 



Proportional measurements: See tables 3, 4, and 15. 



Males may develop slight modifications of the skin of the anal spines 

 and rays. These modifications appear as fleshy envelopments of the 

 fin elements. In a few specunens, larger than 114 mm SL, the skin 

 of the anal spines and the first two anal rays was slightly rugose. 



