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U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Vol. 108 Washington : 1958 No. 3405 



THREE NEW SERRANID FISHES, GENUS PIKEA, FROM 

 THE WESTERN ATLANTIC 



By Leonard P. Schultz 



Several years ago, when studying the serranid fishes related to 

 Pikea Steindachner, Chorististium Gill, and Liopropoma Gill during 

 my preparation of the report on the Mai'shall Island fishes (U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. Bull. 202, vol. 1, 1953), I observed that USNM 117191 repre- 

 sented an undescribed new species. However, the six specimens in 

 that lot were in poor condition, so I waited until additional specimens 

 became available for further study. This new material contained 

 still another undescribed species with two new subspecies, all of which 

 are described here. 



Mrs. Patricia Isham made the drawings for figures 1 and 2. 



Genus Pik?a Steindachner 



Pikea Steindachner, Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 69, p. 2, 1874 (type species, 

 Pikea lum(latu = Grysies Ivnulatus Guichenot). 



Dr. James Bohlke (Notulae Naturae, Philadelphia, No. 291, pp. 1-7, 

 pi. 1, 1956) pointed out that I overlooked one of the almost embedded 

 dorsal spines in my description of Ypsigramma lineata (U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. Bull. 202, vol. 1, p. 375, fig. 59, 1953) and that Chorististium 



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