FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 165 



ABUDEFDUF BLEEKERI, new name 



Glyphidodontops cyaneus (not Quoy and Gaimard) Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. 

 Ind. Neerl., vol. 9, 1877, pi. 409 (10), fig. 2; Nat. Verb. HoU. Maatsch. 

 Wet. Harlem (No. 6), ser. 3, vol. 2, 1877, p. 130 (Timor). 



Depth 2 J^ to 21/^; head SVs to 3^, width 1% to 1^. Snout 4 to 

 4%; eye 2% to 3, 1 in interorbital or Httle greater in young; maxil- 

 lary reaches eye, 3M to S3i in head; interorbital S}4, convex. Giii 

 rakers 6 + 15, lanceolate, long as gill filaments. 



Tubes in lateral line 15 or 16, pores in straight section 7 to 9 + 



1 or 2; 3 or 4 scales above lateral line to spinous dorsal origin, 9 or 10 

 below, 8 to 14 predorsal. Scales with 7 to 10 basal radiating striae; 

 apical denticles 73 to 113, with 1 to 3 transverse series of basal ele- 

 ments; circuli fine. 



D. XIII, 13 or 14, thirteenth spine 1^ to 1^^ in head, eighth ray 

 1/^ to 1%; A. II, 12, I or 13, I, second spine 23^ to 2>^, eighth ray 

 l}4 to 2; least depth of caudal peduncle 2 to 23^; pectoral 1; ventral 

 lli; caudal 2,^5 to 33>^ in combined head and body, forked. 



Pale gray brown. Body everywhere, except fins, spotted and 

 blotched with gray blue. Spots large on cheek and opercle, fine and 

 crowded on head above. On vertical fins base of each scale with 

 small blue spot or dot. Fins all pale or light brownish. Anal with 



2 submarginal grayish parallel lines below. Pectoral with small 

 inconspicuous dusky spot, much less than pupil, at fin origin. Iris 

 pale yellowish. 



Known only from Timor and the Philippines. Differs from 

 Ahudefduf cyaneus, with which Bleeker apparently confused it, in 

 the pale general color of preserved materials in alcohol. It has, 

 however, in contrast a forked caudal, a dark spot at the pectoral 

 origin and a pale submarginal band on the anal fin. Bleeker shows 

 the infraorbitals scaly, which is not the case in our specimens. The 

 dark pectoral spot it shares with Ahudefduf Jiemicyaneus Weber,® but 

 that species is blue above with the under surface of the body, ventral, 

 anal, caudal peduncle and caudal pale or whitish. 



2068. Jolo. February 14, 1908. Length, 42 mm. 



22913. Jolo. February 16, 1908. Length, 71 mm. 



5 examples, D. 5145. Jolo Light, Philippines. February 15, 1908. Length, 



60 to 78 mm. Type. 

 1 example Pangasinan Island. February 13, 1908. Length, 58 mm. 

 1 example, D. 5159. Tinakta Light, Philippines. February 21, 1908. Length, 



41 mm. 



(For Dr. Pieter Bleeker, author of the most elaborate "m^moire sur 

 les Chromides marins ou Pomacentroides de I'inde Archip^lagique.") 



» Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 351, pi. 10, fig. 1. Tual, Kei. 



