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Pale brown above, wliitish beneath, each row of scales with longitu- 

 dinal silvery-white band. Obsolete dusky transverse band from eye 

 across cheek. Body with five broad transverse dusky bands; alter- 

 nate in complete bar or band in each interspace. 



Zanzibar, Delagoa Bay. 



A.N.S.P. No. 53124. Delagoa Bay. H. W. Bell Marley. 1923. Length, 230 mm. 



Family KYPHOSIDAE 



Body oblong or ovate, elevated. Mouth small. Premaxillaries 

 moderately protractile. Incisorlike teeth in front of each jaw more or 

 less fixed; no molars; teeth usually present on vomer. Preorbital 

 rather narrow, unsheaths maxillary. Opercle entire. Preopercle 

 usually serrated. Gill opening large. Gill membranes separate, 

 free from isthmus. Gill rakers moderate. Gills 4, slit behind fourth. 

 Pseudobranchiae well developed. Brancliiostegals 7. Vertebrae 24 

 to 28. Air bladder usually with 2 posterior horns. Pyloric coeca few 

 or many. Intestinal canal elongate. Scales moderate or small, 

 ctenoid, seldom cycloid. Soft dorsal, anal and caudal densely scaled. 

 Ventral with axillary scale. Dorsal fin continuous or divided, rather 

 strong spines 10 to 15, rays 11 to 22. Anal spines 3, rays 10 to 19. 

 Caudal lunate or forked. 



Herbivorous shore fishes, feeding largely on marine algae. Most 

 species valued as food fishes. 



ANALYSIS OF GENERA 



a^. Kyphosinae. Edge of spinous dorsal not notched. 

 bK Caudal little or not deeply emarginate. 



ci. Preopercle flange scaled; anal rays 11 to 14 Kyphosus. 



c^. Preopercle edge naked; anal rays 10 Pachymetopon. 



fc2. Caudal well forked; anal rays 13 or 14 Sectator. 



a^. CoRAciNiNAE. Edge of spinous dorsal notched; front lobes of soft dorsal 

 and anal little elevated Coracinus. 



Genus KYPHOSUS Lacepede 



Kyphosvs Lac:epJ;de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, p. 114, 1802. (Tj'pe, Kyphosus 

 higihhus Lace'ped'E'^ Xyster fuscus Lacepede, monotypic.) 



Cyphosus Jordan and Gilbert, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 16, p. 792, 1882. (Type, 

 Kyphosus higihhus Lacepede.) (Emendation.) 



Tahlmel ForskAl, Descript. Animal., p. (xii) 45, 1775. (Atypic. Type, 

 Sciaena cinerascens Forskal, assumed through vernacular name.) (Inad- 

 missible.) 



Pimelepterus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, p. 429, 1802. (Type, Pimelep- 

 terus hosquii Lac£p6de, monotypic.) 



Pimelopterus Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, p. 794, 1870. 

 (Type, Pimelepterus hosquii Lacepejdb.) (Error for Pimelepterus Lac^.p^db.) 



Pemilepterus Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 9, p. 15, 1885. 

 (Type, Pimelepterus hosquii LAcfiPfeoE.) (Error for Pimelepterus Lacepede.) 



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