FAMILY CIRRHITIDAE — SCHULTZ 



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Genus CIRRHITOIDEA Jenkins 



Cirrhitoidea Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. vol. 22 (1902), p. 489, 1903 (type 



species, C. bimacula Jenkins; Honolulu), 

 Pseudocirrhites Mowbray in Breder, Bull. Bingham oceanogr. coll., vol. 1, No. 1, 



p. 48, 1927 (type species, P. pinos Mowbray; Isla de Pinos, Cuba). 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF CIRRHITOIDEA 



la. Dorsal rays X,12 (rarely X,13). 



2a. Two black ocellate spots, one on opercle, the others just below rear part of 

 base of soft dorsal fin; vertical dark brown bars about 9, vertical scale 

 rows from upper edge of gill opening to base of caudal fin 37 to 39. 



C. bimacula Jenkins 



26. No black ocellate spots; vertical dark brown bars about 9 or 10 and more 



or less incomplete and broken in spots on caudal pedimcle; vertical 



scale rows 40 0. oxyrhynchos "^ (Bleeker) 



16. Dorsal rays X,ll. 

 3a. Vertical scale rows about 42. 



4a. About 6 broad dark vertical bars with a distinct black spot, larger than 

 eye, just below rear part of base of soft dorsal fin; a black bar across 



caudal peduncle C. pinos Mowbray 



46. Six dark brown broad vertical bars, separated by pale interspaces; no 

 large black spots anywhere; ail fins and head dark l)rownish. 



C. sexfasciata, new species 

 36. Vertical scale rows 50. A black spot at rear of base of soft dorsal. 



C. unimacula ^' Kamohara 



Figure 105. — Cirrhitoidea bimacula Jenkins, holotype, USNM 50702, after Jenkins. 



CIRRHITOIDEA BIMACULA Jenkins 



Figure 105 



Cirrhitoidea bimacula Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22 (1902), p. 489, 

 fig. 36, 1903 (type locality, Honolulu). 



«8 Cirrhitichlhys oxyrhynchos Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ncderl.-Indie, vol. 15, p. 205, 1858 (type locality, 

 Qoram); Atlas ichthyologique . . . , vol. 7, p. 140, pi. 3t)3, fig. 4. 1876-77. 



•' CirrhUoidea unimacula Kamohara, Rep. USA Marine Biol. Station, Japan, vol. 4, No. 1, p. 29, fi?. 13, 

 1957 (type locality, Somachi, Japau). 



