FAMILY MULLIDAE — LACHNER 5 



UPENEUS VITTATUS (Forsk&l) 



Plate 75, C 



Mullus vittatus ForskAl, Descriptiones animalium . . ., p. 31, 1775 (type locality, 

 Djedda, Red Sea). — LACEPijDE, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 3, p. 

 382, pi. 14, fig. 1, 1802. — Shaw, General zoology, vol. 4, pt. 2, p. 616, pi. 

 89, 1803. 



Mullus bandi Shaw, General zoology, vol. 4, pt. 2, p. 615, 1803 (type locality, 

 Vizagapatam) . 



Upeneus vittatus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons, 

 vol. 3, p. 448, 1829. — Bleeker, Atlas ichthyologique . . ., vol. 9, pi. (2)392, 

 fig. 3, 1877.— Fowler, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 100, vol. 12, p. 334, fig. 31, 

 1933; Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 12, No. 2, suppl. 3, p. 95, 1949.— Smith, Sea 

 fishes of South Africa, p. 228, pi. 27, fig. 561, 1949. 



Upeneus hitaeniatus Bennett, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc, vol. 1, p. 59, 1831 (type 

 locality, Mauritius). 



Hypeneus vittatus Cantor, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, p. 1017, 1850. 



Upeneoides vittatus GIjnther, Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum, 

 vol. 1, p. 397, 1859.— Day, Fishes of India, p. 120, pi. 30, fig. 2, 1878.— 

 Sauvage, Histoire naturelle des poissons, in Grandidier, Histoire . . . de 

 Madagascar, vol. 16, p. 219 (not pi. 27, fig. 2) , 1891.— Herre and Montalban, 

 Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 36, No. 1, p. 105, pi. 4, fig. 1, 1928. 



Upeneoides caeruleus Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 194, 1868 (type locality, 

 Madras); Fishes of India, p. 121, 1878. 



Upeneoides vittatus Klunzinger, Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, pt. 1, p. 

 741, 1870 (error). 



Upeneoides philippinus Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 70, 

 p. 37, fig. 15, 1918 (type locality, Pliihppines). 



SPECIMENS STUDIED 

 Guam: 2 lots, 7 specimens, 74 to 155 mm. in standard length. 

 In addition 50 lots totaling 143 specimens were studied from Zanzibar, East 

 Africa, eastward through the Philippines to the Low Archipelago and Marquesas 

 Islands (see Lachner, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 103, p. 516, 1954). 



Description. — The following counts and measurements were taken 

 from the seven specimens from Guam. Dorsal rays VIII-i,8, the 

 first spine minute; pectoral rays ii,14 to ii,15; vertical scale rows 34 

 to 3G; scale rows above lateral line 3; scale rows below lateral line 7; 

 total number of gillrakcrs 27 to 29; length of longest raker in longest 

 filament averages about 1.2. 



Peritoneum dark brown to silvery brown; preorbital scales absent; 

 barbels extend bej'ond eye but not beyond preopercular margin; 

 barbel length in percent of head length 51 to 58; third dorsal spine 

 equal to or slightly greater than second. 



Color in alcohol.— Hesid and body light tan to golden tan, darker 

 above and lighter tan to silvery below; two or three faint, dark 

 horizontal stripes dorsolaterally above middle of body. 



Spinous dorsal fin with two blackish horizontal bars, one on outer 

 and one near middle of fin; outer bar passes through outer third of 

 second to fifth spines, and is colored an intense black; a whitish bar 



