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If that does not fix the valid spelling then one must go back to the 

 "first subsequent user"; this appears to be Bleeker (1868), who used 

 the generic name as a subgenus when he described as new ''Salarias 

 (Cirripectes) polyzonal' Bleeker (Versl. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, 

 vol. 7, p. 37, 1873) used this same name again. 



Hence, the correct spelling is Cirripectes and not Cirripectus. 



KEY TO SPECIES OF CIRRIPECTES FROM THE MARSHALL AND MARIANAS ISLANDS 



(Modified after Strasburg and Schultz, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., voL 43, 



No. 4, pp. 129-130) 



la. Body and pectoral fins everywhere covered with dark spots on paler back- 

 ground; nuchal cirri 47 to 62; dorsal rays XII, 14; anal 11,15. 



C. fuscoguttatus Strasburg and Schultz 



16. Body and pectoral fins not marked as in la; dark spots, if present, do not 



uniformly cover the body and pectoral fins; nuchal cirri 43 or fewer. 



2a. Anterior half of body pale, with darker spotting; posterior half of body 



blackish, with pale spotting; supraorbital cirrus slender and simple; 



dorsal rays XII, 15; anal 11,15 or 16 (rarely 15); length of snout 0.7 



to 0.8 in least distance from eye to nuchal fringe; figure 115. 



C. jenningsi * Schultz 



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Figure 115. — Cirripectes jenningsi Schultz, holotype, USNM 115486, from Swains Island. 



Drawn by A. M. Awl. 



26. Color pattern not as in 2a. 



3a. Color of head and body plain tan to dark brown, sometimes with 



scattered pale spots or dots on snout, cheeks, and upper lip; fins 



brown to blackish except sometimes anterodorsal part of spinous 



and soft dorsals and upper lobe of caudal fins pale or whitish. 



4a. Nuchal cirri totaling 24 to 30; dorsal rays XII (rarely XIII), 14 or 15; 



anal 11,15 or 16; first dorsal spine notably elongate in adults of 



both sexes (as short as 45 mm. in standard length). 



C. filamentosus * (Alleyne and Macleay) 



8 Cirripectes jenningsi Schultz, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 180, pp. 273-275, fig. 27, 1943 (type locality, Swains 

 Island). 



« Salarias filamentosm Alleyne and Macleay, Proc. Ltnnean Soc. New South Wale^, vol. 1, p. 337, pi. 14 

 flg. 1, 1877 (type locality. Cape York). 



