FAMILY MULLIDAE — LACHNER 



19 



Table 67. — Diameter of eye and length of snout as a percentage of standard length 

 in Parupeneus barberinus from various Indo-Pacific localities, by size groups 



PARUPENEUS BIFASCIATUS (Lacepede) 



Plate 77,A 



Mullus bifasciatus Lacepede, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 3, pp. 383 and 404, 



pi. 14, fig., 1802 (no locality). 

 Parupeneus andrewsii Regan, Proc. Zool. See. London, p. 403, pi. 65, 1909 (type 



locality, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean). 

 Parupeneus bifasciatus Weber and de Beaufort, Fishes of the Indo-Australian 



Archipelago, vol. 6, p. 386, 1931 (in part).— Schultz, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 



180, p. 130, 1943. 

 Pseudupeneus bifasciatxis Fowler, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 100, vol. 12, No. 1513, 



p. 291, 1933; Mem. Bishop Museum, vol. 12, No. 2, p. 95, 1949. 

 Upeneus bifasciatus Herre and Montalban, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 36, 



No. l,p. 118, pi. 6, fig. 2, 1928. 

 Upeneus semifasciatus Macleay, Proc. Linnean Soc. New South Wales, vol. 8, 



1883, p. 263, 1884 (type locality, Hood Bay, New Guinea). 



SPECIMENS STUDIED 



Guam: 1 specimen, 59 mm. in standard length. 



Rota Island: 1 specimen, 142 mm. 



In addition 43 lots totaling 91 specimens were examined from: East Indies 

 and Philippines, 33 lots, 57 specimens; Phoenix and Samoan Islands, 8 lots, 32 

 specimens; Society Islands, 2 lots, 2 specimens. 



Description. — The following counts and measurements were taken 

 from the two specimens from the Marianas Islands (those taken of 

 certain critical characters from specimens other than the Marianas 

 Islands are listed in tables 68-70): Dorsal raj^s VIII — i, 8; anal 

 rays I, i, 6; pectoral rays ii, 14; vertical scale rows 28; scale rows above 

 lateral line 3, below lateral line 7, around caudal peduncle 14. 



Body depth 2.9 and 3.3, head length 3.1, length of caudal peduncle 

 3.6, 3.7; length of longest pectoral ray 4.2 and 5.0; all in standard 



