NEW SERRANID FISHES — SCHULTZ 327 



Key to genera and species related to Pikea 



la. Spiny dorsal fin continuous with soft dorsal by a ridge of scales along sides 

 of connecting dorsal spines; no scaled area separating spiny and soft dorsal 

 rays; 2J4 to bVz scales in a row from lateral line to base of last dorsal spine; 

 16 to 21 predorsal scales to occiput. 

 2a. Dorsal spines viii (genus Pikea) ' 



3a. Anal rays III, 10; dorsal rays VIII, 14; pectoral ii,14; pores in lateral line 



47; zig-zag scales around caudal preduncle 40 to 42; outer edge, distally, 



of each caudal lobe white (Japan) .... P. japonicus (Doderlein) ^ 



3b. Anal rays iii,9; dorsal rays viii,13; pectoral ii,13; pores in lateral line 



48 to 51, zig-zag scales around caudal peduncle about 45 (Hawaiian 



Islands) P. aurora Jordan and Evennann ^ 



3c. Anal rays iii,8. 



4a. Pores in lateral line 43 to 49, rarely 49. 

 5a. Dorsal rays viii,12. 



6a. Pores in lateral line 43; pectoral rays ii, 11; gill rakers on first gill 

 arch about 15; tips of outer caudal fin raj's black (Bermuda). 

 P. niowbrayi (Woods and Kanazawa) * 

 6b. Pores in lateral line 46 or 47; pectoral rays ii,12; predorsal scales 

 to occiput 19 to 21; gill rakers on first gill arch about 28 (Philip- 

 pines) P. swalesi (Fowler and Bean) ^ 



5b. Dorsal rays viii,13 or 14; pectoral rays ii,13 rarely ii, 12 or ii, 14; 

 pores in lateral line 46 or 47; tips of outer caudal fin rays usually 

 black in adults. 

 7a. Dorsal rays viii,13; gill rakers on first arch 20 or 21 (Cuba). 



P. ciibrnsis, new species 

 7b. Dorsal rays viii,14; gill rakers on first arch 21 to 23 (Gulf of 

 Mexico). 



P. nit xicanus me xicanus, new species and subspecies 

 7c. Dorsal rays viii,14; gill rakers on first arch 18 to 21, rarely 21 

 (off Venezuela and Guianas). 



P. niexicanus atlanticus, new subspecies 

 4b. Pores in lateral line 48 to 70; gill rakers on first gill arch about 18 

 to 20 (unknown for P. viaculata). 



' Pikea Steindachner, Sitzber. Akad. V.iss. Wien, vol. 69, p. 2, 1874 (type species, Pikea lunulata (.= Qrystes 

 lunulatus Quichenot 18G3). 



Labracopsis Doderlein in Steindaclmer and Doderlein, Anz. Akad. Wien, vol. 20, p. 49, 1883; Denkschr. 

 Akad. Wien, vol. 47, p. 235, 1883 (type species, Labracopsis japonicus Doderlein). 



' Labracopsis japonicus Doderlein in Steindachner and Doderlein, Anz. Akad. Wien, vol. 20, p. 49, 1883; 

 Denkschr. Akad. Wien, vol. 47, p. 235, pi. 6, fig. 3, 1883 (Japan). 



2 Pikea aurora Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish. vol. 22, (1902), p. !78, 1903; Ibid., vol. 23 (1903) 

 pt. 1, p. 220, pi. 14, 1905 (nilo). 



♦ Liopropoma mowbraiji Woods and Kanazawa, Fieldiana, Zool., vol. 31, No. 53, p. 033, flg. 134, 1951 (Ber- 

 muda) . 



<• Chorististium swa'esi Fowler and Bean, U. S. Nat. Mns. Bull. 100, vol. 10, p. 180, 1930 (Qulf of Tomini, 

 Celebes). 



