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y Pimelepterus elegans Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1869, p. 707 (type 



locality: Mazatlan, Mexico). 

 Kyphosus elegans Bryan and Herre, Occas. Pap. Bishop Mus., vol. 2, No. 1, 



p. 131, 1901 (1903) (Marcus Island) .—Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 



vol. 22, p. 453, 1902 (1903) (Honolulu).— Snyder, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 



vol. 22, p. 527, 1902 (1904) (Laysan Island). 

 Pimelopterus tahmel (not ForskAl) Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, 



vol. 20, p. 795, 1870 (part). 

 Pimelepterus sandwicensis Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 7, vol. 4, 



p. 221, 1879 (type locality: Hawaiian Islands). 

 Kyphosus sandwicensis Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23, 



pt. 1, p. 274, 1903 (1905) (Honolulu).— Borodin, Bull. Vanderbilt Marine 



Mus., vol. 1, art. 2, p. 53, 1930 (Ponap6; Carolines). 

 Pimelepterus fallax Klunzinger, Fische Roth. Meer., p. 64, 1884 (type locality: 



Red Sea). 

 Pimelepterus vaigiensis (part) Day, Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 2, p. 48, 1889. 

 Cyphosus cinerascens (not Forskal) Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. South 



Afric. Mus., vol. 13, pt. 3, p. 70, 1914 (Natal); Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, 



pt. 4, p. 323, 1917 (only on above reference). 

 Segutilum klunzingeri Whitley, Australian Zool., vol. 6, pt. 4, p. 320, 1931 (on 



Klunzinger) . 



Depth 2% to 2%; head 3% to 3%, width 1% to 2. Snout 2% to 3% in 

 head; eye 3% to 4%, Iji to 1% in snout, Iji to Iji in interorbital ; maxil- 

 lary reaches eye or % in eye, expansion 1^^ to 2 in eye, length 3 to 3% 

 in head; teeth 26 to 28 in jaws, compressed, uniserial, ends rather 

 narrowly rounded; interorbital 2% to 2%, convex. Gill rakers 9 + 18, 

 lanceolate, slender, K of gill filaments or of eye. 



Scales 76 to 80 along above lateral line to caudal base and 10 to 14 

 more on latter; tubular scales 55 to 58 in lateral line to caudal base 

 and 8 to 12 more on latter; 12 scales above, 18 to 20 below, 50 to 73 

 predorsal forward above nostrils. Suprascapula entire. Scales with 

 6 basal radiating striae; 34 to 51 slender small apical denticles, with 

 6 to 8 transverse series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. XI or XII, 12, I, fifth spine l%o to 2 in head, third ray 2^ to 

 2%; A. Ill, 11, I, third spine 2K to 3, second ray 2% to 2%; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 2 to 2K; pectoral lYs to 1%; ventral IK to IK; 

 caudal Sji to 3% in combined head and body to caudal base. 



Back and head above olivaceous-dusky, paler on sides and lower 

 or under surfaces soiled whitish. Longitudinally each row of scales 

 with narrow slightly darker bands following in scale junctures; courses 

 of scales often broken variably above lateral line. Iris grayish to 

 dusky. Fins olivaceous, with more or less dusky terminally, often 

 neutral to slate-black on ventrals. Gray to mauve line on preorbital 

 along lower eye edge. 



Red Sea, Arabia, Zululand, Natal, South Africa, Mauritius, Japan, 

 Western Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Hawaii. Greatly variable in 

 color. Often large examples partly or entirely bright yellow are met 

 with. The largest fresh example I have examined was about 500 



