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Genus SECTATOR Jordan and Fesler 



Sectator Jordan and Fesler, Rep. U. S. Fish Comm., pt. 17, 1889-1891, p. 534, 

 1893. (Type, Pimelepterus ocyurus Jordan, monotypic.) 



Body moderately slender. Teeth very small incisors, compressed, 

 uniserial; minute villiform teeth on vomer, tongue, and palatines. 

 Scales small, 78 to 80. Dorsal spines 11, rays 13 to 15. Anal spines 

 3, rays 13 or 14. Dorsals and anals low, soft fins without elevated 

 anterior lobes. Caudal deeply forked. Paired fins small. 



SECTATOR AZUREUS Jordan and Ercrmann 



Sectator azureus Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22, p. 185, 

 1902 (1903) (type locality: Near Heeia, Oahu Island, Hawaii); vol. 23, 

 pt. 1, p. 248, pi. 20, 1903 (1905) (type) .—Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 

 10, p. 222, 1928 (type). 



Depth 3; head 4, width 1%. Snout S% in head; eye 4%, 1% in 

 snout, 2% in interorbital ; maxillary reaches % to eye, expansion 2 in 

 eye, length 4 in head; jaws about even; teeth in jaws uniserial, 

 compressed, very small; interorbital 2%, convexly elevated. Gill 

 rakers 8 + 20, lanceolate, 1 K in gill filaments, which equal eye. 

 >^ Scales 68 in lateral line to caudal base and 12 more on latter; 

 tubes in lateral hue small, largely concealed; 14 scales above, 20 

 below, 65 predorsal; scales all small toward body edges. Scales 

 with 4 basal radiating striae; 65 apical series of striae, 



D. XI, 15, I, last spine 3 in head, first ray 3%, last ray Sji; A. Ill, 

 13, I, third spine 4K, first ray 2%; caudal peduncle 3Ko; pectoral 1%; 

 ventral 2%; caudal deeply forked, lobes slenderly pointed, 3% (tips 

 damaged) in combined head and body to caudal base. 



Back and head above umber to median axis of body at which 

 longitudinal blackish band, narrow from snout end to and along lower 

 eye edge to pectoral base, behind which 3 or 4 scales wide with each 

 scale with contrasted small white spot. Lower half of body whitish, 

 each scale also with white or pale round spot. Dorsal and caudal 

 like back, other fins whitish. Iris gray-brown, with narrow golden 

 circle around pupil. 



Hawaii. Known only from the type. 



U.S.N. M. No. 50664. Heeia, Oahu. Bureau of Fisheries (03363). Length, 368 

 mm. Type. 



Genus CORACINUS Gronow 



Coracinus Gronow, Zoophylacii, p. 66, 1763. (Type, Coracinus cauda lunata 

 Grosow = Dipterodon capensis Cuvier, designated by Jordan and Ever- 

 mann, Genera of Fishes, pt. 1, p. 19, 1917.) 



Dipterodon (not LACiSpfeDE, 1803) Cuvier, Regne Animal, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 194, 

 1829. (Type, Dipterodon capensis Cuvier, monotypic.) (Not available 

 as genus and species not described.) — Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, p. 274, 1831. 

 (Type, Dipterodon capensis Cuvier, monotypic.) 



Dichistius Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 11, p. 68, 1888. (Type, Dipterodon 

 capensis Cuvier. Dichistius Gill proposed to replace Dipterodon Cuvier.) 



