blenniidae: salariinae — schultz and chapman 309 



46. Nuchal cirri totaling 29 to 37; dorsal rays XII,14; anal 11,14 or 15; 

 first dorsal spine elongate only in adult males. 



C. variolosus (Cuvier and Valenciennes) 



35. Head and body not colored as in 3a. 



5a. Dorsal rays XII, 13 or 14; anal 11,14 or 15; background coloration 

 light tan to dark brown; Young, lengthwise dark stripe from 

 behind eye to caudal fin base, sometimes broken into series of 

 elongate blotches; Adults with 5 to 12 vertical dark brown bars 

 and throat, cheeks, and opereleb usually with numerous roundish 

 pale spots, the size of pupil, enclosed in reticulated brown lines 

 that resemble a honeycomb, sometimes the brown pigment so 

 extensive that pale spots appear to be on a dark background. 



C. sebae (Cuvier and Valenciennes) 



56. Dorsal rays XII,13 to 16 (rarely 13 or 14) ; anal 11,15 to 17 (rarely 15). 



6a. Head and body tan to dark brown, with 8 to 15 vertical dark bars 

 and frequently speckled with tiny black and white dots; 

 narrow dark bar below center of eye, another behind lower 

 rear edge of eye, the latter extending across lip and meeting 

 its fellow on underside of head; narrow transverse dark streak 

 across gill membranes on underside of head; streaks may be 

 diffuse on large specimens; nuchal cirri 25 to 36; length of 

 snout 1.0 to 1.3 in least distance from eye to nuchal fringe. 



C. quagga (Fowler and Ball) 



66. Head and body dark brown or blackish; no vertical dark bars or 

 streaks near eye or across gill membranes; color pattern con- 

 sisting of conspicuous roundish pale spots, size of pupil, en- 

 closed in reticulated brown lines that resemble a honeycomb, 

 sometimes brown pigment is so extensive that pale spots 

 appear to be on a dark background; in males, this pattern is 

 confined to throat, breast, and sides of head, but in females it 

 sometimes extends posteriorly as far as the fifth or sixth soft 

 dorsal ray; large males have the posterior half or two-thirds 

 of side of body with numerous white markings varying from 

 round white dots or small spots to elongate ones or white lines 

 that extend vertically, obliquely, or horizontally; some of 

 elongate lines may run together; posteriorly both bcxes may 

 have scattered pupil-sized blackish spots or short lines on dark 

 background; nuchal cirri 32 to 42. 



C. stigraaticus Strasburg and Schultz 



CIRRIPECTES FUSCOGUTTATUS Strasbnrg and Schultz 



Plate 113,B 



Cirripectus fuscoguitatus Strasburg and Schultz, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., 

 vol. 43, No. 4, p. 130, fig. 1, 1953 (type locality, Rongerik Atoll; holotype 

 USNM 113634). 



Cirripectes brevis (non Kner) Schultz, Copeia, No. 1, pp. 19-20, 1941; U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. Bull. 180, pp. 272-273, 1943 (Enderbury and Tutuila Islands).— 

 Chapman, in de Beaufort and Chapman, Fishes of the Indo-Australian 

 Archipelago, vol. 9, p, 249 (note), 1951. 



