FAMILY POMACENTRIDAE — WOODS AND SCHULTZ 81 



86. Opercle plain brownish. 



10a. Body plain pale grayish tan, bluish or whitish lower sides with 2 faint 

 inverted V-shaped pale areas; anus black, sharply contrasting 

 with surrounding area; anal fin pale basally with a dusky marginal 

 band; pel vies pale; young with narrow bluish line from snout 

 across top of eye along base of dorsal, breaking up into blue dots, 

 disappearing with age; dorsal rays XIII, 12; anal rays 11,12; pec- 

 toral ii,15 to 17; gill rakers 7 to 9+1 + 14 = 22 to 24. 



A. glaucus (Cuvier and Valenciennes) 

 106. Body brownish to blackish, with or without white wedge-shaped trans- 

 verse bar under 5th to 7th dorsal spines; lower sides and belly 

 brownish; anus dark but not contrasting with surrounding area; 

 anal fin dusky brown or black ; pelvics dark grayish brown to black ; 

 back with large black ocellus (in most specimens except large adults) 

 just below base of last 4 dorsal spines and a second smaller black 

 spot at base of posterior dorsal rays; specimens 20 to 50 mm. 

 with narrow pale blue Unes from snout across top of eye along 

 dorsal base to ocellus, these sometimes absent; dorsal rays XIII, 

 13; anal 11,13; pectorals ii,15 or 16; gill raker 8 or 9+1 + 15 



or 16 = 24 to 26 A. biocellatus (Quoy and Gaimard) 



16. Dorsal spines XII; teeth of jaws in single row; body deep, compressed; pre- 



orbitals naked or partly scaled; suborbitals scaled. Subgenus Negoste- 



GASTES Whitley. 



11a. Anal rays 11,15 to 17; lips thick, j^licate, finely fimbriate; background 



color of young pale to dark purplish brown, with diagonal dark Hnes 



along scale bases; often a large blackish vertical band on side just in 



front of caudal peduncle, between soft dorsal and anal fins; fins pale 



in young, sometimes dusky or black in adults; dorsal rays XII, 18 



(rarely 19); pectoral ii,17; gill rakers 2 or 3+1 + 11 = 14 or 15. 



A. johnstonianus (Fowler and Ball) 

 116. Anal rays 11,11 to 14. 

 12a. Color of body pale. 



13a. Color pale, m.argins of scales with narrow dark marginal bar appear- 

 ing as fine diagonal lines; a black crescent-shaped band 4 or 5 

 scale rows wide, originating on anterior soft dorsal rays and ex- 

 tending to tips of anterior anal rays; dorsal rays XII, 17 or 18; 

 anal 11,14 (rarely 13); pectorals ii,15 to 17 (usually 17); gill 



rakers 2 + 1 + 12 or 13 = 15 or 16 A. dicki (Lifenard) 



136. Color plain pale to light grayish or brownish; no spots, stripes, or 

 dark markings except faint short curved lines on bases of scales 

 above lateral line; fins generally all pale and transparent, some 

 specimens with spiny dorsal membranes faintly dusky; black 

 spot on eye between pupil and dorsal edge; dorsal rays 11,15 

 (rarely 14); anal 11,11 (rarely 12); pectoral ii,17 to 19 (usually 

 IS); gill rakers 1 or 2+1 + 8 or 9=10 to 12. 



A. imparipennis (Vaillant and Sauvage) 

 126. Color of body light brown to dark brown. 



14a. Body dark reddish brown to purplish black; scales of head, back and 

 upper sides with scattered small blue spots (often obscure in 

 alcohol); posterior part of caudal peduncle usually pale yellowish; 



