FAMILY LABRIDAE — SCHULTZ 181 



COBIS AYGULA Lacep€de 



Figure 99; Plate 98,D,E,F 



Coris aygula LACEpfcoE, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 3, pp. 96, 97, pi. 4, 

 lower figure, 1802 (no locality). — Seale, Occ. Pap., Bishop Mus., vol. 1, No. 

 3, p. 87, 1901 (Guam). 



Coris angulatus Lacep^de, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 3, pp. 97, 99, 

 pi. 4, middle figure (no locality). 



SPECIMENS STUDIED 



Bikini Atoll: 9 stations, 21 specimens, 34 to 215 mm. in standard length. 

 Rongerik Atoll: 1 station, 2 specimens, 40 to 41 mm. 

 Rongelap Atoll: 5 stations, 9 specimens, 35 to 57 mm. 

 Guam: 1 lot, 1 specimen, 166 mm. 



Description. — Dorsal raj's IX,12; anal 111,12; pectoral ii,12; pores 

 in lateral line 43 to 47+5 or 6+ 11 to 14; vertical scale rows 60 to 65, 



Figure 99. — Coris aygula Lacepede, after Jordan and Snyder. 



with 5 scales above lateral line and 21 to 23 below to anal origin; gill 

 rakers about 7+1+9 to 11. 



Head 3.0 to 3.2; greatest depth 3.1 to 3.3; longest pectoral ray 

 5.0 to 5.5; snout tip to anus 2.0; snout to dorsal origin 2.8 to 3.0; 

 aU in standard length. Snout 2.6 to 3.4; eye 4.0 to 6.2; postorbital 

 length of head 1.9 to 2.0; interorbital space 4.1 to 4.2; longest pectoral 

 ray 1.7 to 1.9; least depth of body 2.0 to 2.4; all in length of head. 

 Eye in flesh}^ interorbital space 0.8 to 2.0. 



Dorsal profile of head forming an angle of about 50 to 70 degrees 

 with the ventral contour of head; pectoral fin reaches to opposite about 

 the 18th to 21st lateral line pores; outer rays of pel vies longest, greatly 

 elongate in adults, reaching past anal origin; first and second dorsal 

 rays greatly elongate on the 310 mm. specimen (head of this specimen 



