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Red Sea, Arabia, Persian Gulf, Zanzibar, Mozambique, Madagas- 

 car, Seychelles, India, Ceylon, East Indies, Philippines, Formosa, 

 China, Japan. We admit this species following Boulenger who gives 

 its maximum length as 630, which is greatly in excess of the closely 

 related Serranus areolatus (Forskal). We have but one specimen. 



932. Dodepo and Pasejogo Islands, Gulf of Tomini, Celebes, Dutch East Indies. 

 November 16, 1909. Length 576 mm. 



SERRANUS GILBERTI Richardson 



Serranus gilberti Richardson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 9, 1842, p. 19, 

 Near entrance to harbor of Port Essington; Ichth. China, Japan, 1846. 

 p. 230 (China).— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 148 

 (China, Australia, Port Essington). — Klttnzinger, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss 

 Wien, vol. 80, pt. 1, 1879, p. 334 (Port Denison, Queensland). — Karoli, 

 Termesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 1882, p. 150 (Singapore). — Elera, Cat. 

 Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 462 (Paragua, Puerta Princesa). — Fowler, 

 Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 179 (Makemo, Mangareva, Funa- 

 futi, Apia, Apiang, Society Islands, Ascension Island, Ebon Island, 

 Carolines, Kusaie, Ponap6). 



Epinephelus gilberti Boulenger, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1895, p. 220 

 (Port Essington, Cape York, Madras, Zanzibar, Madagascar, Indian 

 Ocean). — Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 9, 1914, p. 66 (Hong 

 Kong). — Barnard, Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, 1927, p. 479 (Natal 

 coast). 



Perca melanoscelidota Gray, Cat. Fish. Gronow, 1854, p. 110. Indian Sea. 



Serranus cylindricus Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 151. 

 Madagascar. — Playfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 11 (Zanzibar). — 

 Gunther, Cruise of Curacoa, Brenchley, 1873, p 414, pi. 28, fig. A 

 (Indian Ocean). — Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1878, p. 435 

 (Mauritius). 



Epinephelus cylindricus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Dierk., vol. 1, 1863, p. 344 

 (Madagascar). — Sauvage, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., 1891, p. 75, pi. 

 8, fig. 1. 



Serranus carinatus Alleyne and Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South 

 Wales, vol. 1, 1876, p. 265, pi. 4, fig. 3. Cape Grenville, Queensland. 



Depth 314', head 2}4, width 2. Snout 4 in head from snout tip; 

 eye 5%, IK? in snout, greater than interorbital; maxillary reaches 

 three-fourths in eye, expansion \% in eye, length 2% in head from 

 snout tip; teeth in narrow bands in jaws, biserial along sides of man- 

 dible; pair of small canines in front of each jaw; band of small teeth 

 on vomer and each palatine; interorbital 7, nearly level; hind pre- 

 opercle edge with very minute and feeble serrae; median opercular 

 spine closer to lower and upper advanced. Gill rakers 8 + 16, lance- 

 olate, longer than gill filaments or \% in eye. 



Scales 85 in lateral line to caudal base and 11 more on latter; tubes 

 48 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 more on latter; 16 scales above 

 lateral line, 32 below, 57 predorsal, 30 rows across cheek to preopercle 

 angle; most body scales with crowded, minute, numerous, fine, basal 

 scales; some scales on flanks ctenoid, others smooth; fins all finely 



