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Isocirrhitiis sexfasciatus (Schultz) 



Figure 20 



Paracirrhiles cinctus Hurry, 1953 (non Gunther) , Atoll Res. Bull. 18, p. 88, 



(Raroia, Tuamotu Archipelago). 

 Cirrhitoidea sexfasciata Schultz, in Schultz and collaborators, 1960, U.S. Nat. 



Mus. Bull. 202, vol. 2, pp. 255, 257, fig. 106 (type locality, Bikini Atoll, 



Marshall Islands). 



Diagnosis.— Dorsal raysX,ll; anal rays 111,6; pectoral rays i,8,v; 

 lateral-line scales 44 or 45 ; 4 rows of large scales above lateral line in 

 middle of body; 9 scales below lateral line to origin of anal fin; gill 

 rakers 4 or 5+1 + 11 (3 specimens, Tuamotu Archipelago). 



Color light tan with 7 broad blackish vertical bars, the first on the 

 nape and the last at the base of the caudal fin. A drab species for a 

 cirrhitid, its Hfe color is not much different from that in alcohol. 

 Harry (1953) gave a detailed color description. Further characters 

 are given in the generic diagnosis. 



Remarks. — Three specimens, 61 to 70 mm. in standard length, 

 were collected by the author at Makatea in the Tuamotu Archipelago 

 at the same collecting station as the previous species. KnowTi only 

 from the Marshall Islands and the Tuamotu Archipelago, but con- 

 tinued collecting will probably reveal its presence elsewhere in the 

 Indo-Pacific. 



The holotype (USNM 141980) is 77.5 mm. in standard length. 



Genus Amblycirrhitus Gill 



Amblycirrhilus Gill, 1862. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 105. (Type 



species, Cirrhites fasciatus Cuvier, by original designation and raonotypy = 



Amblycirrhitus indicus Fowler.) 

 Cirrhitoidea Jenkins, 1903, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm., vol. 22 (1902), p. 489. (Type 



species, Cirrhitoidea bimacula Jenkins, by monotypy.) 

 Pseudocirrhites Mowbray, in Breder, 1927, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Coll., vol. 1, 



p. 48. (Type species, Pseudocirrhites pinos Mowbray, by monotypy.) 



Diagnosis. — Upper 1 or 2 and lower 5 (rarely 6) pectoral rays 

 unbranched; dorsal soft rays 11 or 12; palatine teeth present; upper 

 margin of preopercle finely serrate; preorbital without a free hmd 

 margin; interorbital scaled; 4 or 5 rows of large scales on cheek; 3 or 

 4 rows of large scales above lateral line in middle of body; depth of 

 body 2.3 to 3.2 in standard length; snout length 3.1 to 3.8 in head 

 length; snout pointed, profile from interorbital to upper lip nearly 

 straight; a tuft of cirri from membrane near tip of each dorsal spine; 

 membranes of dorsal fin moderately to deeply incised, the one be- 

 tween fifth and sixth dorsal spines notched more than three-tenths 

 length of spines; longest dorsal spine 2.3 to 3.2 in body depth; first 

 dorsal soft ray not produced into a filament ; pectoral fins moderately 



