FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE SEAS AND ADJACENT WATERS 349 



Fowler, Bull. Bishop Mus. 38, p. 16, 1927 (Honolulu); Mem. Bishop 



Mus., vol. 10, p. 223, pi. 19B, 1928 (Honolulu). 

 Erythrichthys schlegeli Franz, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., vol. 4, suppl. vol. 



10, p. 46, 1910 (Aburatsubu). — Jordan and Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., vol. 41, p. 598, fig. 15, 1912 (Tokyo and Misaki). 

 Erythrocles schlegeli Jordan and Hubbs, Mena. Carnegie Mus., vol. 10, p. 245, 



1925 (Toba market, province Shima). — Tanaka, Fishes of Japan, vol. 41, 



p. 785, pi. 170, fig. 470, 1927 (Tokyo). 

 Erythrocles schlegelii Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929 (1930), 



p. 646 (Honolulu).— Schmidt, Bull. Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., 1931, p. Ill 



(Obama); Trans. Pacific Comm. Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., vol. 2, p. 73, fig. 



10, 1931 (head) (Nagasaki). — Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 11, No. 



5, p. 336, 1931 (Honolulu). 

 Erythrichthys scintillans Jordan and Thompson, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, vol. 41, p. 599, 1912 (type locality: Hilo) (on Erythrichthys schelgeli 



Jordan and Evermann). 



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

 in head from snout tip; eye 3 to Sji, little greater than snout, subequal 

 to slightly greater than interorbital ; maxillary reaches % to }i in 

 eye, length 2)^ to 2% in head from snout tip; teeth obsolete or rudi- 

 mentary in adult, only few rudimentary patches of villiform or simple 

 minute conic ones may be present; interorbital 3Ko to 3K, slightly 

 convex; preopercle edge entire, membranous. Gill rakers 13 + 25, 

 lanceolate, equal gill filaments, which 2% in eye. 



Scales 69 to 70 in lateral Une to caudal base and 5 to 7 more on 

 latter; 9 or 10 above, 17 or 18 below, 60 to 62 predorsal forward 

 close behind snout tip; 9 or 10 scales transversely across cheek to 

 preopercle flange. Scales with 6 basal radiating striae; 44 to 57 

 apical denticles, slender points with 5 or 6 transverse series of basal 

 elements; circuli fine. 



D. X-I, 11, I, fourth spine 1% to 2 in total head length, second 

 ray 2% to 3}^; A. Ill, 9, i or 10, i, third spine 3% to 3%, first ray 

 2% to 3%; caudal 1% to 1^, deeply forked, long slender lobes pointed 

 narrowly; least depth of caudal peduncle 3% to 4; pectoral 1% to 

 1%; ventral l^Uo 2. 



Back pale brown, sides and below whitish, with more or less silvery 

 sheen. Iris pale yellowish to whitish. Fins all pale or light uniform 

 brownish. 



Arabia, Japan, Hawaii. Schmidt, in describing in detail the 

 mouth parts of this fish, says that they act "like a sucker and the 

 tongue like the piston of a pump and that the fish sucks probably 

 the plancton or the detritus." 



U.S.N.M. No. 52818. Hawaiian Islands. Bureau of Fisheries (No. 05290). 



Length, 268 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 62637. Honolulu. Dr. D. S. Jordan. Length, 330 mm. 

 One example. A.N.S.P. Honolulu. Bishop Museum. 



