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Glyphisodon sordidus Ruppeix, Atlas Reis. Nordl. Afr. , Fisch., 1828, p. 34, 

 pi. 8, fig. 1 (Mohila, Red Sea).— Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1834, 

 p. 466 (Macuer Island, Red Sea).- — Richardson, Proc. Brit. Assoc. Adv. 

 Sci. (Ich. China Jap.) 1845 (1846), p. 253 (China).— McCulloch 

 and Waite, Trans. Roy. See. S. Australia, vol. 40, 1916, p. 444, pi. 40, fig. 1 

 (Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, Funafuti in Ellice Group, New 

 Hebrides, type of Glyphidodoti leumpleura Day). 



Glypliidodon sordidus Gxjnthek, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 41 

 (China, Mauritius, Red Sea). — Kner, Raise Novara, Fisch., pt. 2, 1865, 

 p. 243 (Nicobars). — Gunther, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 83 (Aden and 

 Zanzibar). — Kltjnzinger, Verb. zool. hot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, 1871, p. 52 

 (Koseir, Red Sea). — Peters, Monatsb. Akad. AViss. Berlin, 1876, p. 442 

 (Mauritius, Seychelles). — Bleeker, Atlas Ich. Ind. Neerl., vol. 9, 1877, 

 pi. 410 (11), fig. 5.— Day, Fislies of India, pt. 3, 1877, p. 385, pi. 83, fig. 1 

 (Sind). — GuNTHE2t, Rep. Voy. Challenger, vol. 1, 1880, p. 51 (Raine 

 Island); Journ. Mus. Godeffvoy, vol. 7 (15), 1881, p. 231 (Red 

 Sea, East Africa, East Indies, Tahiti, Raiatea, Samoa, Bonin 

 Islands). — Boulengek, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, p. 664 (Muscat). — • 

 Day, Fauna British India, vol. 2, 1889, p. 386.— Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Mada- 

 gascar, Poiss., 1891, p. 430.— Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 546 

 (Luzon, Manila, Navotas).- — Waite, Mem. Austral. Mus., vol. 3, pt. 3, 



1897, p. 192 (Funafuti). — Ishikawa and Matsuuea, Prelim. Cat. 

 Fish. Mus. Tokyo, 1897, p. 31 (Japan). — Jatzow and Lenz, Fisch. 

 Ost. Afr. Mad. Aldabra, 1898, p. 518 (West Madagascar and Majunga). — 

 Steindachner, Denks. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 71 (1), 1907, p. 149 

 (Gischin, South Arabia). — Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., 

 vol. 6, 1908-11, p. 196 (Natal).— Regan, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, 1914-17, 

 p. 169 (Durban). 



Glypliidodon {Glyphidodon) sordidus Bleeker, Nat. Verh. Holl. Maatsch. 



Harlem, (No. 6), ser. 3, vol. 2, 1877, p. 95 (Sumatra, Java, Cocos, Obi 



major, Amboina). 

 Abudefduf sordidus Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, p. 418 



(Misaki, Tauegashima), p. 504 (Okinawa). — Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 



57, Fische, 1913, p. 347 (Salibabu). 

 Glyphisodon geant Lienard, Dix Rap. Hist. Nat. Maurice, 1839, p. 35. 



Mauritius. 

 Glyphidodon leueopleura Day, Fishes of India, pt. 3, 1877, p. 385, pi. 83, 



fig. 4. Andamans ; Fauna British India, vol. 2, 1889, p. 387. 

 Glyphisodon hroionrigffil (not Bennett) Waite, Prelim. Rep. Thetis. Ex., 



1898, p. 61 (Lord Howe Island). 



Depth 13/5 to 1% ; head 23/5 to 2%, width 1% to 1%- Snout 3 to 

 314; eye 2% to 31^5 equals snout or little greater in young, 1 to 

 1% in interorbital ; maxillary reaches eye, or slightly beyond in 

 young, 31/^ to 31/2 in head; teeth uniserial, compressed incisors, ends 

 of each notched; interorbital 24^^ to 3, broad and slightly convex; 

 preorbital, infraorbital, and preopercle edges entire. Gill rakers 

 7+11, lanceolate, moderate. 



Tubes in lateral line 21 to 23, often followed by 1 or 2 irregular 

 pores; pores in straight section 7 or 8 to caudal base and 1 or 2 on 



