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Table 102. — Counts recorded for species of Macropharyngodon 



Vol. 2 



MACROPHARYNGODON PARDALIS <Kner) 



Plate 100, F 



LeptojuUs pardalis Kner, Sitzb, Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 56, p. 728, pi. 3, fig. 2, 



1867 (type locality, Viti Island, Fiji). 

 Platyglossus nigromaculatus Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1871, p. 666, 



pi. 65, fig. B, (type locality, Savay, Samoa). 

 Halichoeres nigropunctatus Seale, Occ. Pap. Bishop Mus., vol. 1, No. 3, p. 89, 



1901 (type locality, Guam). 



SPECIMENS STUDIED 



Bikini Atoll: 13 stations, 38 specimens, 27 to 96 mm. in standard length, 

 Rongerik Atoll: 1 station, 1 specimen, 45 mm. 

 Eniwetok Atoll: 2 stations, 7 specimens, 40 to 74 mm. 

 Rongelap Atoll: 7 stations, 32 specimens, 30 to 98 mm. 



Description. — Head 2.5 to 3.1; greatest depth 2.5 to 3.1; longest 

 pectoral ray 3.8 to 4.8; snout tip to anus 1.9 to 2.0; all in standard 

 length. Snout 2.8 to 3.8; eye 3.5 to 5.6; postorbital length of head 1.9; 

 interorbital space 3.3 to 4.4; longest pectoral ray 1.5; least depth of 

 body 1.9 to 2.1 ; all in length of head. Eye in fleshy interorbital space 

 0.9 to 1.6. 



Dorsal profile of head forming an angle of about 70 to 75 degrees 

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

 tenth or eleventh lateral line pores ; outer pelvic rays elongate, reaching 

 to anus, longest ray about equal to postorbital length of head; distal 

 margin of caudal fin a little rounded. 



Color in alcohol. — Background coloration light tan or light yellowish ; 

 head, body and median fins everywhere with blackish round to oblong 

 or squarish spots, the pale interspaces usually narrower than the dark 

 spots; the latter usually a little smaller than eye, except on the fins 

 the spots are about the size of the pupil ; pelvics with black spots ; lower 

 base of pectoral fin with a dark spot; anterior part of isthmus with a 

 black ocellate spot the size of eye; membranes between subopercle 

 usually pale, occasionally dusky; dorsal and caudal fins barred; 

 pectorals plain pale; peritoneum black. 



Our smallest specimen, 27 mm., is dark spotted like the larger adults, 

 except that dark spots are lacking on caudal and dorsal fin and front 

 of head; the dark spots on mid-sides are more W-shaped, fewer in 



