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23.- -Day, Fishes of Malabar, 1867, p. 7. — Kner, Reise Novara, Zool., 

 vol. 1, pt. 5, 1865, p. 26 (Singapore). — Karoli, Termesz. Fuzetek, Buda- 

 pest, vol. 5, 1882, p. 150 (Palaboen, Java). — Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., 

 vol. 1, 1895, p. 463 (Luzon, Cavite, Santa Cruz). 



Epinephelus formosus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 7, 1873- 

 76, p. 44 (Java, Sumatra, Singapore, Borneo, Celebes); vol. 8, 1876-77, 

 pi. (62) 340, fig. 3. 



Petrometopon formosus Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ser. 2, 

 vol. 12, 1904, p. 521 (Padang, Sumatra). 



Serranus boelang Valenciennes Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 308. 

 Seas of the Indies (East Indies); vol. 6, 1830, p. 504 (Ceylon, Sunda 

 Straits, New Guinea). — Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool., vol. 2, 

 1834, p. 657, pi. 3, fig. 4 (Sunda Straits). — Playpair, Fishes of Zanzibar. 

 1866, p. 2 (Zanzibar). — Weber, Semon's Zool. Forsch. Reis. Austral., vol. 

 5, 1895, p. 262 (Amboina). 



Epinephelus boelang Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 7, 1873-76, 

 p. 40 (Sumatra, Nias, Singapore, Bintang, Banka, Java, Celebes, Buru, 

 Amboina, New Guinea). 



Serranus spiloparoeus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 338. 

 No locality (from Commerson). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 

 1859, p. 125 (copied). 



Serranus stigmapomus Richardson, Ichth. China, Japan, 1846, p. 232. 

 Canton and northwest coast of Australia. — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. 

 Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. Ill (copied). — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New 

 South Wales, vol. 5, 1880, p. 314 (northwest coast Australia). — KXroli, 

 Termesz. Fuzetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1882, p. 149 (Singapore). — Elera, 

 Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 460 (Luzon, Cavite, Santa Cruz). 



Serranus stigmapo?na Kent, Great Barrier Reef, 1893, p. 369 (Queensland). 



Cephalopholis stigmapomus Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 

 1906 (1907), p. 19 (Manila). 



Serranus nigro-fasciatus Hombron and Jacquinot, Voy. Astrolabe, Zool., 

 vol. 3, 1853, p. 36, pi. 2, fig. 1. No locality.— Peters, Monatsb. Akad. 

 Wiss. Berlin, 1865, p. 105 (reference). — Martens, Preuss. Exp. Ost-Asien, 

 vol. 1, 1876, p. 385 (Amboina; Nagasaki Bay). 



Serranus microprion (part) Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 

 116 (Amboyna and China). 



Depth 2% to 2V 8 ; head 2j/£ to 2%, width 2^ to 2%. Snout 4H 

 to 4% in head from snout tip; eye 4% to 5*/£, 1 to \% in snout, 

 greater than interorbital; maxillary extends slightly bej^ond eye, 

 expansion y§ to 1 in eye, length 1% to 2Vg in head from snout tip; 

 teeth fine, in bands in jaws; pair of front canines in each jaw; minute 

 teeth on vomer and palatines; interorbital 8 to 834, slightly convex: 

 preopercle edge with inconspicuous minute serrae; opercular spines 

 3, upper slightly inclined upward and most advanced, median closer to 

 lower. Gill rakers 8 + 16, lanceolate, equal gill filaments or Yi of eye. 



Scales 82 to 90 in lateral line to caudal base and 1G to 18 more on 

 latter; tubes 44 to 46 in lateral line and 4 more on latter; 18 to 22 

 scales above lateral line, 25 to 27 below, 48 to 56 predorsal, 30 rows 

 across cheek; body scales without small basal auxiliary scales; fin bases 

 all finely scaled; scales mostly smooth on head, very small on cheek 

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