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spot shown in Bleeker's figure does not appear in the two kodachrome 

 transparancies. 



ANAMPSES CAERULEOPUNCTATUS RUppell 



Plate 102,B 



Anarnpses caerulco-punctatus Ruppell, Atlas zu der Reise im nordlichen Afrika 

 , . . Fische des Rothen Meers, p. 42, pi. 10, fig. 1, 1828 (type locality, 

 Red Sea). — Bleeker, Atlas ichthyologique . . . , vol. 1, pi. 24, fig. 2, 1862. 



SPECIMENS STUDIED 



Bikini Atoll: 7 stations, 8 specimens, 6-3 to 197 mm. in standard length. 1 lot, 

 Univ. Washington, 1 specimen, 42 mm. 



Rongerik Atoll: 2 stations, 6 specimens, 94 to 113 mm. 



Description. — Certain counts made on several species of Anarnpses 

 are recorded in table 104. Scales above lateral line to base of first 

 soft dorsal ray are 3 or 4 and below to anal origin are 10 or 11. 



Head 2.7 to 3.0; greatest depth 2.7 to 2.9; longest pectoral ray 4.5 

 to 4.8; snout tip to anus 1.8 to 1.9; snout to dorsal origin 2.7 to 3.2; 

 all in standard length. Snout 2.5 to 3.2; eye 5 to 7.5; postorbital 

 length of head 1.9 to 2.0; interorbital space 4.0 to 4.7; longest pectoral 

 ray 1.6 to 1.8; least depth of body 2.2 to 2.3; all in length of head. 

 Eye in fleshy interorbital space 1.2 to 3.0. 



Dorsal profile of head forming an angle of about 65 to 75 degrees 

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

 about the tenth or eleventh lateral line pore; outer rays of pelvics 

 elongate, reaching about to anal fin origin, distal margin of caudal 

 rounded in young, truncate in adults. 



Color in alcohol. — In adults, the background coloration light tan to 

 dark brown, each scale with a brown bordered blue spot (this blue spot 

 usually pale or white in alcohol but may preserve as brownish) ; head 

 and caudal fin lighter in shade than body, or lighter basally with 

 distal half dusky, then distal margin white edged, especially notable 

 between lengths of 105 to 197 mm.; caudal fin blue spotted, head 

 with blue streaks or blue spots more or less in rows. The blue streaks 

 on head are arranged as follows: three radiate from dorsal part of 

 eye, the two anterior ones crossing interorbital space; three extend 

 ventrally from lower part of eye, the anterior one bent sharply 

 forward and extending to snout, the posterior one bent and curved 

 posteriorly and extending to fleshy tip of opercular flap, two streaks 

 occur on mouth, and dots and streaks occur on opercle, subopercle, 

 and interopercle; isthmus blue streaked. Other blue streaks and dots 

 occur on pectoral base and below it. There is some variability in the 

 arrangement of these blue streaks. Outer edges of pelvics, dorsal, and 

 anal fins pale blue when alive; dorsal and anal fins with pale spots 

 (blue when alive). 



