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Sauvage gives its length as 220 mm. He says it is similar to Pagrus 

 spinifer, differing in a more convex upper profile and only the third 

 dorsal spine greatly elongate. 



Genus BOOPSOIDEA Castelnau 



Boopsoidea Castelnau, Mem. Poiss. Afrique Australe, p. 25, 1861. (Type, 



Boopsidea inornata Castelnau, monotypic.) 

 Boopsidea Castelnau, M(5m. Poiss. Afrique Australe, p. 26, 1861. (Type, 



Boopsidea inornata Castelnau.) 



Eye large. Hind nostril oval. Both jaws with one row of 8 to 10 

 rather small unequal, sharply conic front teeth, small and more 

 granular ones at sides; behind front teeth two or three rows of small 

 granular molars, hindmost row large. Preorbital narrow, lower edge 

 straight. Gill rakers 16 below, well developed. Pyloric coeca 4. 

 Scales minutely ctenoid. Cheeks scaly, row 8 or 9. Preopercle flange, 

 snout, and interorbital scaleless. 



One species. Known chiefly by its small molars, outer row of teeth 

 conic and without canines, forming innermost row of a band of 

 teeth. 



BOOPSOroEA INORNATA Castelnau 



Boopsoidea inornata Castelnau, M(5m. Poiss. Afrique Australe, p. 26, 1861 

 (type locality : Kalb Bay; Algoa Bay). — Barnard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., 

 vol. 21, pt. 2, p. 711, 1927 (False Bay, Agulhas Bank, East London, 33 

 fathoms) . 



Pagrus (Chrysophrys) holubi Steindachner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 

 math.-nat. Kl., vol. 83, pt. 1, p. 203, pi. 2, 1881 (type locality: Algoa Bay). 



Pagrvs holubi Thompson, Marine Biol. Rep. South Africa, No. 4, pp. 88, 94, 

 1918. 



Sparus holubi Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1925, p. 236 (Natal 

 coast) . 



Depth 2%; head Sji, width 1%. Snout 3^ in head; eye 2%, greater 

 than snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches to eye, expansion 3% 

 in eye, length 2% in head; teeth rather short, simple, conic, 3 or 4 series 

 forward, narrowing to single series posteriorly and outer forward 

 series moderately and evenly enlarged; interorbital 3%, slightly con- 

 vex. Gill rakers 10+14, lanceolate. 



Scales 55 in lateral line to caudal base and 7 more on latter; 9 

 above, 15 below, 29 predorsal, 10 rows on cheek to preopercle ridge. 

 Scales with 12 to 16 basal radiating striae, with 3 auxiliaries; 90 to 95 

 apical denticles, with 3 to 13 rows of basal segments transversely; 

 circuli fine. 



D. XI, 10, I, fifth spine 2% in head, last 3)^; A. Ill, 11, i, second 

 spine 3}4, first ray 3%; caudal 1, emarginate; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 2%; ventral 1%; pectoral 3 in combined head and bodj^ to 

 caudal base. 



