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Centropomus arabicus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1802, pp. 249, 257 

 (Arabia). 



Cheilodipterus arabicus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 165, pi. 23 

 (Lohaja). 



Centropomus macrodon Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1802, pp. 252, 

 273. Mauritius and Reunion. 



Paramia macrodon Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., vol. 7, 1873-76, p. 

 105 (Batu, Singapore, Java, Bawean, Celebes, Batjan, Amboina). — Jordan 

 and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, 1905 (1906), p. 252 (Apia and 

 Samoa). — Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 239 (Saleyer). 



Chilodipterus macrodon Klunzinger, Fische Roth. Meer., 1884, p. 23. — 

 Day, Fauna Brit. India, vol. 1, 1889, p. 501. — Zugmayer, Abh. Bayer. 

 Akad. Wiss., Math.-Phys. Kl., vol. 26, pt. 6, 1913, p. 10 (Oman). 



Cheilodipterus macrodon McCulloch, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 

 vol. 46, No. 4, 1921, p. 469 (Palm Island, Queensland). 



Cheilodipterus octovittatus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 163. 

 Mauritius. — Guichenot, Notes He Reunion, vol. 2, 1862, p. 23. — Play- 

 fair, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 21 (Zanzibar and Johanna). — 

 Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, 1870, p. 717 (Koseir, Red 

 Sea). — Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876, p. 436 (Mauritius). — 

 Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 7, 1882, p. 236. 



Cheilodipterus octovittatus Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 

 248 (Mauritius, Amboyna, India). — Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1887, p. 656 (Muscat). 



Cheilodipterus heptazona Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Perc), vol. 

 22, 1849, p. 29. Batavia, Java. 



Paramia octolineata Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Norland., vol. 7, 1873-76, 

 pi. (27) 305, fig. 2. 



Depth 3 to 3%; head 2% to 2%, width 2% to 2%. Snout 3% to 



4 in head from snout tip; eye 3 to 2>%, greater than snout in young 

 and subequal with age, greater than interorbital at all ages; maxil- 

 lary reaches % to % in eye, expansion 1% to 2>£ in eye, length 1% 

 to 2 in head; 4 or 5 lower canines each side in lower jaw and 3 to 



5 each side in upper, and narrow band or row of minute teeth on 

 vomer and each palatine; interorbital 4^ to 5, nearly level; pre- 

 opercle ridge and edge entire in young, edge minutely serrate with age. 

 Gill rakers 1+7, with 5 rudiments above and 7 below; length equals 

 gill filaments or 2% in eye. 



Scales 22 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 more on latter; 2 

 above, 5 or 6 below, 6 predorsal, 2 or 3 rows of scales on cheek to 

 preopercle ridge; muzzle, including interorbital, suborbitals and max- 

 illary, naked. Scales with 7 to 22 basal radiating striae; 25 to 162 

 apical denticles, with 5 or 6 transverse series of basal elements; 

 circuli fine. 



D. VI-I, 9, i, third spine 2}4 to 2% in total head length, first ray 

 \% to 1%; A. II, 8, i, second spine 2% to 3Xo, first ray V/% to 2; 

 caudal \ x /i to 13^, hind edge little emarginate; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 2% to 3; pectoral \% to l 7 /$'> ventral 2 to 2}/$. 



