FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE SEAS AND ADJACENT WATERS 171 



Spec. Tokj^o Mus., Vertebr., p. 148, 1920 (Enoura, Suruga) .^Jordan and 

 HuBBS, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 10, No. 2, p. 241, 1925 (Tokyo, Kobe, 

 Kagoshima, Misaki, Tayama, Miyazu). — Oshima, Jap. Journ. Zool., Trans, 

 Abstr., vol. 1, No. 5, p. 139, 1927 (Formosa, China, Corea, Japan). — Sow- 

 ERBY, Naturalist in Manchuria, vol. 4, p. 191, 1930 (Tientsin; Chefoo). — 

 Anonymous, Illustr. Jap. Aquat. Plants Animal., vol. 1, p. 36, fig. 2, 1931. 

 Pagrus ruber (Doderlein) Steindachner and Doderlein, Denkschr, Akad. 

 Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., vol. 48, pt. 1, p. 20, 1884 (type locality: Tokyo).. 



Depth 2% to 2%; head 2% to 3, width 2. Snout 2% to 3Ko in head; 

 eye 3 to 4, 1% to iK in snout, greater than interorbital in young to 

 1% with age; maxillary reaches opposite front eye edge, expansion 

 2% to 3 in eye, length 2% to 3 in head; 4 front conic canines above, 

 6 below, variable, often outermost shghtly enlarged; above followed 

 by 4 or 5 shorter canines each side and below by 5 or 6 shorter canines 

 each side; jaws posteriorly each side with small biserial molars, of 

 which 2 or 3 inner largest and all around anteriorly inside band of 

 small granular teeth; small patch of obtuse or rounded short teeth 

 on vomer, not always evident; interorbital 3% to d%, convexly ele- 

 vated. Gill rakers 7 or 8 + 9 to 12, lanceolate, about % of gill filaments, 

 which 1% in eye. 



Scales 51 to 60 in lateral hne to caudal base and 10 nontubular 

 more on latter; 7 above, 15 below, 40 to 44 predorsal forward opposite 

 front eye edge; 7 rows of scales on cheek. Scales Math 7 to 9 basal 

 radiating striae; 55 to 77 minute sharp pointed apical denticles, with 

 10 to 17 transverse series of basal elements; circuli very fine. 



D. XII, 10, I, third spine 1% to 1% in head, first ray 2% to 2%; A. 

 Ill, 9, 1 or 8, 1, third spine 2}^ to 3, first ray 2^ to 2K; caudal iKo to 1%, 

 forked, lobes pointed ; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 3 ; ventral 

 Iji to 1%; pectoral 2% to 2% in combinedhead and body to caudal base. 



Back dull brown, sides and lower surfaces silvery white. Iris 

 white. Fins all light or pale brownish. On dorsals two longitudinal 

 shghtly darker bands than body color. 



China, Japan, Formosa, Riu Kiu, Korea. Also reported from the 

 Philippines by Elera, though of this I have no material to confirm 

 him. 



U.S.N.M. No. 26252. Japan, 1878. Prof. E. S. Morse. Length, 85 to 198 mm. 



Nine examples. 

 U.S.N.M, No. 75492. Aikawa, Japan. Jordan and Snyder. Length, 220 to 222 



mm. Two examples. 



Genus PAGELLUS Cuvier 



Pagellus Ctjvier, R^gne Animal, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 128, 1829. (Type, Sparus 



eryihrinus Linnaeus, designated by Jordan and Fesler, Rep. U. S. Fish 



Comm., 1889, pt. 17, p. 517, 1893. 

 Lithognathus Swainson, Nat. Hist. Animals, vol. 2, p. 222, 1839. (Type, 



Pagellus lithognathus Cxjvier, virtually monotypic.) 

 Nudipagellus Fowler, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 162, p. 4, 1925. (Type, Sparus 



centrodonlxis Delaroche, orthotypic.) 



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