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"teeth small, simple, conic, uniform, form two rows above anteriorly 

 and five below anteriorly; none on palate or tongue." Herre (Field 

 Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser., publ. 353, vol. 21, p. 213, fig. 11, 1936) 

 reported it from Nuku Hiva Island, Marquesas Islands, as Paru- 

 peneus hilineatus. He commented on his generic allocation (p. 211) 

 referring hilineatus to species with teeth arranged uniserially in the 

 jaws. Fowler (Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 233, fig. 47, 1928) 

 cites the original description of hilineatus by Cuvier and Valenciennes 

 (Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 7, p. 394, 1831, type locality, 

 Amboina), pointing out their reference to the uniserial conic jaw 

 teeth and smooth palate, and erroneously places his Palmyra record 

 with it without mention of his previous statement on the dentition. 



Table 79. — Number of gill rakers and vertical scale rows of MuUoidichthys from 

 various Indo-Pacific localities 



Table 80. — Measurements of several characters in four species of MuUoidichthys 



