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Serranus reevesii Richardson, Ichth. China, Japan, 1846, p. 232. Canton, 



China. 

 Pomacentrus punctatus (Russell) Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 



1859, p. 141. India. (Name in text). 



Depth 2% to 3H ; head 2Y Z to 2%, width 2}/ s to 2%. Snout 43^ 

 to bli in head from snout tip; eye 4J/g to 5%, slightly greater than 

 snout in young and subequal with age, greater than interorbital at all 

 ages; maxillary reaches opposite hind eye edge in young, little beyond 

 with age, expansion 1% to 2 in eye, length 2Xo to 2% in head from 

 snout tip; teeth fine, conic, in bands in jaws; pair of small, upper, 

 wide set canines, often double and inner row of teeth hinged and 

 those anteriorly inside longest; mandibular teeth several series in 

 front narrowing biserial posteriorly, inner row hinged, especially 

 inner front ones and pair of front canines often double; band of fine 

 teeth on each palatine and on vomer, none on tongue; nostrils 

 together, posterior little larger than front one to double its diameter; 

 interorbital 6^ to 734 m head, slightly convex; hind preopercle edge 

 denticulate, some serrae at angle little larger; opercular spines 3, 

 upper most advanced, nearer median. Gill rakers 7 + 15, lanceolate, 

 equal gill filaments or 3^ of eye; 5 above and 5 below rudimentary. 



Scales 92 to 94 in lateral line to caudal base and 10 to 12? more 

 on latter; tubes 48 to 52 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 or 3 

 more on latter; 15 to 17 scales above lateral line, 27 to 31 below, 56 

 to 62 predorsal, 25 to 27 obliquely from lower hind eye edge to pre- 

 opercle angle; small auxiliary basal scales present, especially on head, 

 fewer on body; fins all more or less finely scaled, at least basally; 

 upper half of maxillary expansion scaly, scales in 5 to 9 rows trans- 

 versely. Scales with 6 or 7 basal radiating striae; 28 to 38 apical 

 denticles, with 4 or 5 transverse series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. XI, 16, 1, third spine 2}4 to 3 in total head length, first ray 2% 

 to 2%; A. Ill, 8, 1, second spine 23^ to 3y 8 , fifth ray 2Ko to 234; 

 caudal 1% to 1%, convexly rounded behind; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 3% to 4%; pectoral 1% to 1%; ventral 2 to 2}i- 



Generally light brown, forming nearly whitish reticulating lines 

 around variably hexagonal, pentagonal or rounded deep brown 

 blotches. These latter very variable, sometimes several may be fused 

 to form longitudinal bands variably short or long. Sometimes several 

 groups of dark blotches may be emphasized along bases of dorsals 

 to show several dark saddle-like blotches. Often on belly white retic- 

 ulations may be broad as the spots which thus appear well separated. 

 Iris brown. On fins white reticulations or lines usually narrow, the 

 pectoral more finely spotted than the others, though it is very variable 

 as the dark spots sometimes formed extremely small. 



Red Sea, Arabia, Persian Gulf, Zanzibar, Mozambique, Natal, 

 Mauritius, Reunion, Bourbon, Madagascar, Rodriguez, Seychelles, 



