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PENTAPODUS CURTUS (Guichenot) 



Pentapus curtus Guichenot, Notes lie Reunion, vol. 2, p. 5 (25), 1862 (type 

 locality: Reunion Island). — Playfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, p. 31, 1866 

 (Zanzibar). — Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., p. 183, pi. 13, fig. 

 2-2a, 1891 (type). — Regan, Trans. Linn. Soc. London (Zool.), ser. 2, vol. 12, 

 p. 227, 1908 (Amirante, Seychelles, 30 to 80 fathoms). 



Depth 2}^; head 3%. Snout 3 in head; eye 2%, siibequal with snout; 

 maxillary reaches % to eye, expansion % in eye, length 3% in head; 

 (teeth 8 above and 9 below shown as single row in each jaw, anterior 

 little larger); interorbital moderately low; preopercle edge entire; 

 suborbital depth 1}^ in eye. 



Scales 42 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 more on latter; 6 above, 

 16 below, 10 predorsal forward opposite hind eye edge, 5 rows of small 

 scales on cheek with broad naked preopercle flange. 



D. X, 11 (10 in description), fourth spine 2^ in head, last spine 

 ZVi, fourth ray 2%; A. Ill, 10, third spine 3%, fourth ray ^ji; caudal 1, 

 deeply emarginate, lobes pointed; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 2%; pectoral 1%; ventral 1%. 



Greenish, more brownish on back and flanks, with brown marblings, 

 cloudings, some grouped as vertical bands. On body also numerous 

 indistinct longitudinal brown or blackish lines. Fins brown, without 

 spots or bands. Length, 185 mm. (Sauvage.) 



Reunion, Seychelles, 



Genus SYNAGRIS Gunther 



Synagris GtJNXHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 373, 1859. (Type, Dentex 



furcosus Valenciennes, designated by Jordan, Genera of fishes, pt. 3, p. 291, 



1919. Not Klein, 1775, which is inadmissible.) 

 Anemiira Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12, p. 527, 



1904. (Type, Dentex notatus Day, orthotypic.) 

 Odonioglyphis Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12, p. 527, 



1904. (Type, Dentex tolu Valenciennes, orthotypic.) 

 Euthyopteroma Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, vol. 12, p. 527, 



1904. (Type, Dentex blochii Bleeker, orthotypic.) 



Body elUptical, compressed. Head moderate. Mouth terminal, 

 protractile, nearly horizontal, jaws equal. Maxillary mostly exposed, 

 without supplemental bone. Outer row of conic and somewhat 

 enlarged teeth and inner villiform band, at least anteriorly. Canines 

 3 or 4 pairs and moderately strong above, when present below weak. 

 Preorbital wide, smooth, naked. Preopercle entire or weakly serrate. 

 Opercular spine weak or absent. Branchiostegals 6. Air bladder 

 notched behind. Pyloric coeca few. Scales moderate, adherent, 

 ciliated. Occiput, opercles, and cheek with cycloid scales, on latter 

 in but 3 series. Dorsal and anal scaleless. Lateral line complete, 

 not on caudal, tubes simple. Dorsal with 10 spines, 9 rays and 

 spines feeble, sometimes filamentous. Anal with 3 spines and 7 

 rays. Caudal deeply forked, upper ray sometimes filamentous. 



