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smaller than those on rest of body; dorsal soft rays 11; upper two- 

 thirds of body, head, and pectoral base with scattered small solid 



black spots (western Indian Ocean) punctatiis 



4b. Supraorbital crest slightly hooked posteriorly and extending only 

 slightly posterior to eye; scales on thorax markedly smaller than those 

 on rest of body; dorsal soft rays 12; no small solid black spots on upper 



part of body or head (Lord Howe Island) splendens 



lb. Lateral-line scales 45 to 49. 



5a. Depth of body 2.6 to 2.8 in standard length; longest dorsal spine about 3.3 

 in head length; 5 near- vertical dark bars on body of young which break 

 up into groups of irregular oblong spots with bicolored border (black 

 inwardly and pale outwardly) on adults; dark bands on head with 



similar border (tropical eastern Pacific) rivulatus 



5b. Depth of body about 3 in standard length; longest dorsal spine about 2.4 

 in head length; color pattern not of dark bars or oblong black spots 

 arranged in bars (Ilheo das Rolas, tropical west Africa) . . atlanticus 



Cirrhitiis pinnulatus (Schneider) 



Figure 2 



Labrus pinnulatus Schneider, in Bloch and Schneider, 1801, Systema 



ichthyologiae . . . , p. 264 (type locahty, Tahiti). 

 Labnis marmoratus Lacepede, 1802, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 3, pp. 



438, 493, pi. 5, lower figure (no locality). 

 Cirrhitus maculatus Lacepede, 1803, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 5, pp. 2, 



3 (type locality, Mauritius). 

 Cirrhites maculosus Bennett, 1828, Zool. Journ., vol. 4, p. 38 (type locahty, 



Hawaiian Islands). 

 Cirrhitus alfernatus Gill, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 14, pp. 



106, 107 (type locality, Hawaiian Islands). 

 Cirrhitus spilotoceps Schultz, 1950, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 100, pp. 548, 551, 



pi. 13,C (type locality, Red Sea). 



Diagnosis. — Dorsal rays X,ll; anal rays 111,6; pectoral rays 

 i,6,vii; lateral-line scales 39 to 44 (table 1); 4 rows of large scales above 

 lateral line in middle of body (3 beneath soft portion of dorsal fin); 

 9 large scales below lateral line to origin of anal fin; gill rakers 5 to 

 7+1 + 11 to 13 (29 specimens, localities of table 1). 



Table 1. — Counts of lateral-line scales of specimens of Cirrhitus pinnulatus 



