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LETHRINUS GENIVITTATUS Valenciennes 



Figure 6 



Lethrinus genivittatus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 306, 1830 [no 



locality (discovered by Peron: East Indies)]. — Steindachner, Verb. zool. 



bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 16, p. 478, 1866 (Zanzibar). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. 



Sci. Philadelphia, 1925, p. 241 (Delagoa Bay). 

 Lethrynus genivittatus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss, vol. 6, pi. 159, 1830. 

 Lethrinus geniguttatus Jouan, M^m. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, ser. 2, vol. 3, 



p. 261, 1868 (Hong Kong; specific name error). 

 Lethrinus miniatus (not Schneider) Barnard, Ann. South African Mus., vol. 21, 



pt. 2, p. 632, 1927 (part). 



Depth 3)8; head 2%, width 2^. Snout 2){ in head from snout tip; 

 eye 3, IK in snout, greater than interorbital ; maxillary reaches % to 

 eye, length 3 in head from snout tip ; teeth uniserial, all rather slenderly 

 conic; 4 front canines in each jaw besides 1 or 2 mediolaterals each side 

 of jaw; inner band of villiform teeth in each jaw; interorbital 4, level. 

 Gill rakers 4 + 5, low tubercles, Yi of gill filaments which 2% in eye. 



Figure 6.~Lethrinus genivittatus Valenciennes, young 



Scales 43 in lateral line to caudal base and 6 more on latter; 5 

 above, 14 below, 9 predorsaj forward opposite upper hind preopercle 

 edge; caudal base scaly. Scales with 10 to 12 basal radiating striae; 

 52 to 55 fine, apical denticles, with 6 transverse series of basal ele- 

 ments; circuli fine. 



D. X, 9, I, third spine 2% in total head length, third ray 2%; A. Ill, 

 8, I, third spine 3}^, first ray 2%; caudal 1%, deeply emarginate; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 3)^; pectoral 1%; ventral 1%. 



Back and head above brown, sides and below pale to whitish. 

 About 8 irregular transverse dark narrow bands on body, more or less 

 broken as 3 or 4 rows of spots or blotches, that above first third of 

 pectoral and other just above and beyond depressed pectoral tip 

 darkest and most conspicuous. Snout dark brown. Broad dark- 



