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Parupeneus barberinus Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 1, p. 234, 1863 

 (reference); Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., vol. 9, pi. (3) 393, fig. 1, 1877; 

 Arch, N^erland. Sci. Nat. Harlem, vol. 13, p. 37, 1878 (New Guinea). — 

 Klunzinqer, Fische Roth. Meer., p. 62, 1884. — Steindachner, Abh. 

 Senckenberg. Naturf. Ges., vol. 25, p. 419, 1900 (Ternate); Sitz. Ber. Akad. 

 Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. KL, vol. 115, pt. 1, p. 1388, 1906 (Upolu).— Weber, 

 Siboga Exped., Fische, vol. 57, p. 296, 1913 (Paternoster Island, Makasser, 

 Menado, Biaru, Saiu, Karkaralong, Binongka, Ambon). — Pellegrin, Bull. 

 Soc. Zool. France, vol. 39, p. 231, 1914 (Diego Suarez; Mahambo). — Bar- 

 nard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, p. 588, 1927 (Delagoa Bay). 



Pseudupeneus barberinus Jordan and Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, 

 p. 782, 1905 (Negros). — Seale, Occas. Pap. Bishop Mus., vol. 4, No. 1, 

 p. 49, 1906 (Tahiti; Shortland Island). — Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. 

 Fisher., vol. 25, p. 276, 1905 (1906) (Apia).— Evermann and Seale, Bull. 

 Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, p. 88, 1906 (1907) (San Fabian and Bacon). — Snyder, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 32, p. 92, 1907 (Samoa). — Kendall and Golds- 

 borough, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 26, p. 293, 1911 (Vavau, Fakarava, 

 Moen, Truk). 



Pseudupeneus (Hogbinia) barberinus McCulloch, Austral. Mus. Mem., vol. 5, 

 pt. 2, p. 223, 1929 (reference). 



Upeneus moiavan (Montrouzier) TniOLLifeRE, Fauna Woodlark, p. 163, 1857 

 (name in synonymy) . 



Depth ZYz to 3K; head 2% to 3, width 2% to 2}^. Snout IK to 1% 

 in head; eye 2% to 8, 3 to 5K in snout, 134 to 2)^ in interorbital ; maxil- 

 lary reaches % to K in snout, expansion Iji in eye to % greater with 

 age, length 3}^ to Z% in head; barbels reach opposite hind eye edge, 

 length 1% to 1% in head; teeth 27 to 32 in jaws, strong, short, conic, 

 uniserial, none on palatines; interorbital 4)^ to 4%, convex. GUI 

 rakers 6 + 21, lanceolate, }^ gill filaments or }i greater than eye. 



Figure 21. — Pseudupeneus barberinus (LacSpede), young 



Scales 28 or 29 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 more on latter; 

 3 above, 6 below, 13 predorsal forward to nostril; 4 rows below eye to 

 lower preopercle edge. Tubes of lateral line with many as dozen 

 tubules. Scales with 6 basal radiating striae; 130 to 268 apical 

 denticles, with 3 to 30 transverse series of basal elements; circuli 

 very fine. 



