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and Hubbs, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 10, No. 2, 1922 (1926), p. 236 

 (Mikawa Bay; Miyazu Fukui). — Tanaka, Figs. Descript. Fishes Japan> 

 vol. 37, July 10, 1927, p. 693, pi. 108, fig. 442 (Saiki). 



Depth 2%) head 2^i width 2. Snout 4*/£ in head from snout tip; 

 eye 4^, equals snout, greater than interorbital; maxillary reaches 

 slightly beyond eye, expansion 1% in eye, length 2 in head from 

 snout tip; teeth in bands in jaws, inner upper larger and biserial 

 along sides of mandible; small teeth on vomer and palatines; pair of 

 canines in front of each jaw; interorbital 6J^, slightly convex; hind 

 preopercle edge serrate, with 2 serrae a*t angle little larger; opercle 

 with upper spine more distant from median than lowest, also most 

 forward. Gill rakers 8 + 16, lanceolate, equal gill filaments or 2 in 

 eye; 4 upper and 4 lower rudimentary. 



Scales 93 along lateral line to caudal base; tubes 60 in lateral line 

 to caudal base and 5 more on latter; 17 scales above lateral line, 28 

 below, 58 predorsal forward to front nostrils, about 20 rows across 

 cheek to propercle angle; maxillary scaleless. Vertical fins all more 

 or less finely scaled. Scales with 4 or 5 basal radiating striae; 18 to 

 20 apical denticles, slender, 4 or 5 series transversely; circuli rather 

 coarse. 



D. XI, 15, i, third spine 2% in total head length, first ray 2%; A. 

 Ill, 8, i, second spine 3%, third ray 23^; caudal \%, convex behind; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 3^; pectoral l}/£; ventral 1%. 



Largely uniform brownish. Two pairs of broad, darker brown 

 bands on body transversely, first from spinous dorsal and second 

 from soft dorsal, all extending on dorsal fins. Also fifth transverse 

 dark brown band on caudal peduncle. Caudal and pectoral mottled 

 with paler brown. Ventral and anal dusky brown. 



China, Formosa, Korea, Japan, Riu Kiu. Reported by Elera from 

 the Philippines. The above description from a Japanese example in 

 the United States National Museum obtained by E. S. Morse in 1878, 

 length 127 mm. 



SERRANUS CORALLICOLA Valenciennes 



Serranus corallicola (Kuhl and Van Hasselt) Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. 

 Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 336. No locality.— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, 

 p. 20; Fauna Brit. India, vol. 1, 1889, p. 451. — Weber, Semon's Zool. 

 Forch. Reis. Australia, vol. 5, 1895, p. 262 (Amboina). — Fowler and Ball, 

 Bishop Mus. Bull., No. 26, 1925, p. 14 (Wake Island).— Fowler, Bishop 

 Mus. Bull., No. 38, 1927, p. 14 (Fanning and Christinas Islands); Mem. 

 Bishop Mus., vol. 10, 1928, p. 181 (Shortland, Tubuai, Tahiti, Raiatea, 

 Mangareva, Rarotonga, Marcus Island, Makatea, Palmyra, Wake Island, 

 Apia). 



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

 p. 53 (Java, Singapore, Celebes, Amboina). — Boulenger, Cat. Fish. Brit. 

 Mus., vol. 1, 1895, p. 236 (Malay Archipelago, Manado, Pelew Islands, 

 Mortlock, Ponape, Greenwich, Howland Islands). — Jordan and Seale, 

 Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, 1905 (1906), p. 259 (Apia).— Weber, Siboga 

 Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 203 (Haingisi, Samar Island). 



