FISHES OF THE PHOENIX AND SAMOAN ISLANDS 253 



FAGASA TUTUILAE, new species 



Figure 23 



Holotype. — A specimen (U.S.N.M. No. 116168) 18.5 mm. in stand- 

 ard length, taken by Leonard P. Schultz in a small creek near the 

 village of Fagasa at Fagasa Bay, Tiituila Island, June 5, 1939. 



Deacrrption. — (Based on the holotype, the only known specimen, 

 listed above. Measurements are in hundredths of the standard length, 

 18.5 mm.) Greatest depth 10.4; length of head 27.0; diameter of 

 eye 6.6; tip of snout to posterior corner of maxillary 7.1; length of 

 snout 5.5; postorbital length of head 14.3; interorbital space 2.7; 

 snout to origin of spiny dorsal 37.3 ; snout to origin of anal fin 57.7 ; 

 length of caudal jDeduncle, or distance from base of last anal ray to 

 midbase of caudal fin 30.2 ; least depth of caudal peduncle 6.6 ; length 

 of longest pelvic fin ray 15.4; length of longest pectoral fin ray 22.0; 



Figure 23. — Fagasa tutuilae, new species: Holotype (U.S.N.M. No. 116168), 18.5 mm. 



in standard length. 



length outer rays of caudal fin 22.5 ; length of middle rays of caudal 

 fin 19.8. 



Dorsal rays VI-I, 8; anal I, 8; pectoral 17; pelvics I, 5 separated 

 to tlie base; 31 ctenoid scales from where they begin along midaxis 

 of body under origin of second dorsal to base of the caudal fin. 



This elongate eleotrid has the gill membrane free for some distance 

 forward before joining the isthmus; the caudal fin is shallowly emar- 

 ginate; the teeth are minute or villiform in two or three rows on 

 upper jaw and three or four in lower jaw with the outer series 

 enlarged anteriorly; the head is depressed but the body compressed 

 posteriorly; mouth very oblique, the lower jaw a little longer but not 

 quite entering the dorsal profile; maxilhuies not quite reaching to 

 front of eye; anal origin under that of second dorsal origin; anus 

 immediately in front of origin of anal fin; i)elvics reaching a little 

 over lialf but not quite two-thirds the wtiy to the anal origin; pec- 

 torals extending a little past tips of pelvics; anterior rays of median 

 fins not elongate; no dermal flaps on shoulder girdle; interorbital 

 space about twice in snout; no teeth on vomer or })alatines; anterior 

 nostril tubular posterior at up[)er margin of eye not tubular; no pore 

 along midline of interorbital space. 



