blenniidae: salariinae — schxjltz and chapman 



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Remarks. — This species, as indicated in the generic diagnosis, is 

 distinguished from all other Salariinae by its low number of soft 

 rays in dorsal and anal fins, in conjunction with the absence of vomer- 

 ine teeth and of a row of cirri across the nape. No other species in 

 the Salariinae, has so few soft rays, except in Cirripectes, and all 

 members of that genus have a row of cirri across the nape. 



Named minutus because the adults of this species are the smallest 

 salariian blenny yet discovered. 



The folio wmg key distuiguishes the two species referred to the genus 



Fallacirripedes : 



la. Interorbital space narrow, 3 times in snout and twice in eye. 



F. minutus, new species 



16. Interorbital space broad, longer than snout and about equal to eye 



diameter F. wellsi, new species 



Figure US.—Fallacirripectes wellsi, new species, holotype, USNM 142154, from Rongelap 

 Atoll. Drawn by Dorothea B. Schultz. 



FALLACIRRIPECTES WELLSI, new species 



Figure 125 



Holotype. — USNM 142154, Rongelap Atoll, Bowditch anchorage, 

 half mile ofT Rongelap Island, July 17-27, S-46-259, Herald, 1 speci- 

 men, 11 mm. m standard length, 13.5 mm. total length; male, only 

 known specimen. 



Description.~DoTsa\ rays XII,11; anal 11,11; pectoral 15-15; 

 pelvics 1,4-1,4; no orbital cirrus; nuchal cirrus present each side of 

 nape; nasal cirrus present on each side. 



Certain measurements were made on the types and these data are 

 recorded below, in thousandths of the standard length, which is 11 

 mm.: Length of head 336; greatest depth 255, least depth of body, 91; 

 postorbital length of head 136; diameter of eye 136; snout 100; inter- 

 orbital space 109; length nasal cirrus 10; longest dorsal spme 136; 

 longest soft dorsal ray 91; longest anal ray 109; longest pectoral ray 



