blenniidae: salariinae — schultz and chapman 323 



Ic. Pectoral with 13 or 14 rays (rarely 12) ; if area around anus is black anal rays 

 are 11,13 or 14. 

 3a. Nasal cirrus simple and single. 



4a. Dorsal with 19 or 20 soft rays; anal with 21 or 22; a dark band along base 

 of dorsal. (Western Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf.) 

 5a. Body evenly brown, without markings (female). 



E. pulcher (Murray) 



56. Head, throat and body to level of sixth dorsal ray rich, light brown 



(paler below), without markings; rest of body to caudal abruptly 



pale, crossed by 5 or 6 equally spaced narrow, sharply defined 



vertical bars, reaching from dorsal to ventral edge of body (male) . 



E. pulcher * (Murray) 



46. Dorsal with 12 to 14 soft rays; anal with 13 to 17 soft rays; no dark 



streak along base of spinous dorsal and streak never sharply 



defined if present on soft dorsal. 



6a. Spinous and soft dorsal separated by shallow notch in young but no 



notch at all in adults; sharply defined black spot, half the area of 



eye, around anus, set off from rich brown body by light peripheral 



band; no other markings on head, body or fins; dorsal with 12 or 



13 soft rays; anal with 13 or 14 soft rays. (Solomon Islands.) 



E. lividanalis ' Chapman and Schultz 

 66. Spinous and soft dorsal separated by a deep notch reachhig nearly to 

 base of fin; last dorsal spine minute, nearly hidden in basal fin 

 membrane; no dark spot around anus; well defined dark streaks, 

 bars, or spots on body; dorsal with 13 to 16 soft rays; anal with 

 15 to 18 soft rays. 



7a. A row of 6 or 7 small teeth laterally on ridge of dentary; anal with 

 16 to 18 soft rays; double row of small, dark, roundish spots 

 along side of body, but no bars or bands. (Queensland, Aus- 

 tralia.) E. mandibularis 1" McCulloch 



76. One or 2 tiny teeth posterolaterally on the dentary, but never more; 



anal with 15 soft rays; no dark spots on body, but dark bars 



or bands present on sides; two pale horizontal bands, each as 



wide as pupil, running full length of body, one from upper 



corner of opercle, the other from under pectoral. 



8a. Dorsal with 14 soft rays; a dark band as wide as pupil extending 



back from eye to opercle edge; no vertical dark bars on body; 



nasal cirrus about a third the diameter of eye in length; 



membrane from last dorsal ray covering first 3 or 4 small 



caudal rays; pectoral shorter than head by diameter of eye; 



s Salarias pulcher Murray, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 2, p. 47, 1887 (type locality, Kurrachee 

 Manora Rocks, India); Indian Ann. Mag. Nat. Sci., vol. 1, p. 23, 1887 (Kurrachee). 

 Salarias phantasticus Boulenger, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. 20, p. 422, 1897 (type locality, Mekran 



Coast, Persia). 

 Salarias anomalus Regan, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 16, pp. 327-331, pi. B, fig. 4, 1905 (type local- 

 ity, Persian Qulf; Mekran Coast, Karachi); Journ. Zool. Soc. London, p. 406, 1909 (on type material). 

 Ecsenius pulcher Chapman and Schultz, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 102, p. 515, 1952. 



» Ecsenius lividanalis Chapman and Schultz, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 102, p. 517, flg. 91, 1952 (type 

 locality, Munda, New Georgia, Solomon Islands; holotype USNM 144723, and paratype USNM 144291). 



'0 Ecsenius mandibularls McCulloch, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 14, No. 2, p. 122, pi. 15, figs. 1, 2, 1923 

 (type locality. Masthead IsL"ind, off Port Curtis, Queensland, Australia).— Chapman and Schultz, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 102, p. 518, 1952. 



