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to a vertical at ends of pelvic fins; length of pelvic fins 24 mm. There 

 are 20 coarse serrations on the free margin of the preopercle. 



The illustration of guichenoti in Sauvage (1891) is in error in failing 

 to show the branched pectoral rays abruptly shorter than the lower 

 unbranched rays. The lowest branched ray on the specimen is about 

 two-thirds the length of the adjacent unbranched ray. The caudal 

 fin is not rounded, but nearly truncate, and the first dorsal spine is 

 slightly less than half the length of the fifth dorsal spine instead of 

 three-fifths the length, as shown in the figure. 



This species is remarkably similar in color pattern to Cirrhitichthys 

 oxycephalus but is easily distinguished from this and other members 

 of the genus by its longer snout and higher scale and fin-ray counts. 

 Judging from the length of the one known specimen from Reunion 

 (166 mm.), it is the largest species in the genus. 



Genus Cyprinocirrhites Tanaka 



Cyprinocirrhites Tanaka, 1917, Dobuts. Zasslii (Zool. Mag., Tokyo), vol. 29, no. 

 347, p. 269, (Type species, Cyprinocirrhites ui Tanaka— Cirrhitichthys 

 polyactis Bleaker.) 



Diagnosis. — Generic characters are given in the key to the genera 

 and the diagnosis of polyactis, which appears to be the only species in 

 the genus. 



Cyprinocirrhites seems to be closely related to Cirrhitichthys. 

 Smith's (1951) belief that further study of Cyprinocirrhites might 

 warrant its elevation to family rank seems unlikely. 



Cyprinocirrhites polyactis (Bleeker) 



Figure 34 



Cirrhitichthys polyactis Bleeker, 1875, Verb. Akad. Wetensch., Amsterdam, vol. 



15 (1874), p. 16 (tj^pe locality, Amboiua, East Indies); 1876-77, Atlas 



ichthj^ologique . . ., vol. 8, p. 147, pi. 76, fig. 1. 

 Cyprinocirrhites ui Tanaka, 1917, Dobuts. Zasslii (Zool. Mag., Tokyo), vol. 29, 



no. 347, p. 269 (type locality, Tanabe, Japan). 

 Cyprinocirrhites stigma Fowler, 1943, U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 100, vol. 14, pt. 2, 



p. 65, fig. 11 (type locality, Labuan Blanda Island, Buton Strait, East Indies). 



Diagnosis. — Dorsal rays X,16 or 17 (one with 17); anal rays 111,6; 

 pectoral rays i,7,vi; lateral-line scales 47 to 49; 3 rows of large scales 

 above lateral line in middle of body; 9 scales below lateral line to 

 origin of anal fin; gillrakers 4 + 1 + 11 or 12 (one with 12) (6 specimens, 

 Philippines). 



Palatine teeth present; free margin of preopercle almost entirely 

 serrate, the upper margin with 12 to 16 coarse serrations; preorbital 

 with hind margin free for about one-fom'th the distance from lower 

 edge to eye; interorbital and dorsal part of snout scaled; 4 rows of 



