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HALICHOERES AMBOINENSIS (Bleeker) 



Julis (Halichoeres) amboinensis Bleeker, Art. Soc. Ind. N^erl. (Beschr* 



Amboin.), vol. 1, 1856, p. 55. Amboina. 

 Halichoeres amboinensis Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erl., vol. 1, 1862, 



p. 122, pi. 37, fig. 3 (Amboina). 

 Platyglossiis amboinensis Gunther, Cat. Fish. B,rit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, 



p. 156 (copied). 



Depth 31^ to 3K; head 2J4 to 3}4, width 2}^ to 2^. Snout 

 3 to 33^; eye 4^ to 5, 13^^ to 2 in snout, 1 to l}/^ in interorbital; 

 maxillary 3^ to % to eye, 3% to 43^ in head; single rather large 

 posterior canine each side directed forward; interorbital 5 to 5%, 

 broadly convex. Gill rakers 4+10, short, lanceolate. 



Scales in lateral line 22 to 25, 4 or 5 + 1 or 2 ; 3 scales above lateral 

 line, 9 or 10 below; 9 to 12 predorsal. Scales with 26 basal radiating 

 striae, apical 21 to 24; circuli fine. 



D. IX, 12, I, ninth spine 33^ to 33^ in head, first branched ray 

 23/^ to 23/^; A. II, 12, i, second spine 43^ to 43^, first branched ray 23^ 

 to 2J^; caudal 13^ to 1 3^, little convex behind; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 2 to 23^; pectoral IJ^ to 1^; ventral 13^ to 23^. 



Dull brownish generally, paler to whitish on under surface. Each 

 scale on body with faintly darker spot basally. Head with 4 or 5 

 longitudinal grayish bands, of which 2 extending back from hind 

 eye edge. Dorsals and anals each with faint traces of numerous 

 whitish oblique lines and blackish blotch on first 2 membrances of 

 spinous dorsal medially. Fins otherwise uniformly pale. Pectoral 

 with narrowly cuneate basal blackish blotch. 



Known previously only from a single example described from 

 Amboina by Bleeker, 136 mm. long. He gives the pectoral rays 

 as II, 13, but most of our examples show 11, 12, and only one has 11, 

 13. Our examples also differ a little in that the pale lines on the 

 spinous dorsal are oblque like those on the soft dorsal. Also our 

 examples have the anterior black blotch on the spinous dorsal median 

 and not basal. 



21470. Doworra Island. December 2, 1909. Length, 93 mm. 



12695. Gondra Island, near Bolipongpong Island. September 20, 1909. Length, 

 72 mm. [1974]. Slaty-gray. Dorsal with pale reticulating lines. Anal 

 similar. Caudal pale orange; black speck in upper base, no distinct bars; 

 black spot at upper base of pectoral. Vinaceous stripes on side of head. 



21574. Port Galera. October 27, 1909. Length, 80 mm. 



16273, 16490, 16491. Teomabal Island. September 18, 1909. Length, 95 to 



103 mm. 



HALICHOERES TENUISPINIS (Gunther) 



Plaiyglossus tenuispinis Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 161. 



Seas of China. — KXroli, Termesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1881, 



p. 174 (Nagasaki and Yokohama). — Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 



1895, p. 553 (Luzon, Cavite, Santa Cruz). 

 Halichoeres tenuispinis Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Dierk., vol. 2, 1865, p. (56) 



57 (Amoy). — Jordan and Hubbs, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 10, No. 2, 



1925, p. 250 (Tokyo, Shizuoka, Misaki, Toyana). 



