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26. Background coloration brownish with a white spot on side of body dor- 

 sally; blackish spots more prominent posteriorly (centers of scales 

 darkish, thus the black spots are in lengthwise rows, more prominent 

 ventrally); caudal, dorsal, anal, and pelvic fins dusky; pectoral 

 dusky; no dark spots on head or ventrally in front of anal fin ; (male = 

 Bleeker's Cirrhites polyslictus) P. hemistictus (Gunther) 



PARACIRRHITES FORSTERI (Bloch and Schneider) 



Plate lU.B 



Grammtsies/orsierz Bloch and Schneider, Systema ichthyologiae ..., p. 191 1 

 1801 (tj^pe locality, St. Christine or Waitaho, Marquesas Islands). 



Gerranus tankervillae Bennett, Fishes found upon the coast of Ceylon, ed. 2, p. 

 27, pi. 27, 1834 (type locality, Ceylon). 



SPECIMENS STUDIED 



Rongclap Atoll, Rongelap Island, depth 10 to 60feet, July23, S-46-282, Brock, 

 Herald, and Kohler, 1 specimen, 139 mm. 



Description. — Dorsal rays X,ll; anal 111,6; pectoral i,6,vii; pelvic 

 1,5; branched caudal 7 + 6; vertical scale rows from upper edge of gill 

 opening to midbase of caudal 48 or 49, with 6 scales from dorsal origin 

 to lateral line and 11 or 11}^ from anal origin to lateral line; 5 rows of 

 large scales on cheek with smaller ones above and below; gill rakers 

 5 + 1 + 11 or 12. 



Greatest depth 2.7; head 2.7; length of longest branched pectoral 

 ray 6.5, of longest lower simple pectoral ray 5.1 ; all in standard length. 

 Snout 3.1; eye 6.1; snout tip to rear of maxillar}^ 2.4; greatest depth 

 1.0; least depth of caudal peduncle 2.6; postorbital length of head 1,8; 

 all in length of head. Least depth of caudal peduncle in its length 

 1.6. Bony interorbital 0.9 in eye. 



Greatest depth opposite front of dorsal base; profile of head blunt, 

 gill membranes broadly joined across isthmus, free, with numerous 

 fine scales on that part over isthmus; maxillary exposed posteriorly, 

 concealed by preorbital anteriorly; lips thick, -wide; lower jaw slightly 

 shorter than upper; mouth a little oblique; cheek with 5 rows of large 

 scales, and below eye some tiny ones, also small ones posteriorly on 

 preopercle; nostrils separated by a dermal isthmus, rear margin of 

 anterior nostril with a tuft of cirri; beliind tip of each dorsal spine a 

 single simple cirrus; no accessory pelvic scale; scales cycloid; vomer 

 with a triangular patch of villiform teeth, probably no teeth on pala- 

 tines; a band of villiform teeth in upper jaw, broadest forward, with 

 an outer row of conical caninelike teeth, and on each side of symphysis 

 an enlarged canine tooth; lower jaw with a narrow band of villiform 

 teeth forward only, and an outer row of enlarged but short canine 

 teeth; pelvic insertion behind pectoral base, about under base of fifth 

 dorsal spine; bases of soft dorsal, anal, caudal, and pectoral fins with 

 small scales; third lower simple pectoral ray longest; rear margin of 



