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HOLACANTHUS XANTHURUS Bennett 



Holacanthus xanthurus Bennett, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. London, 1832, p. 

 183. Mauritius. — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 51 

 (type). 

 Preopercle spine smooth, reaches pectoral base. Scales 46 in lat- 

 eral line; 7 above, 22 below. D. XIV, 19; A. Ill, 18; dorsal and 

 anal rounded behind. Brownish, each scale with light crescent-shaped 

 streak. Caudal yellow. (Giinther.) 



HOLACANTHUS DIACANTHUS (Boddaert) 



Chactodon diacanthus Boddaert, Descr. Epist. Cliaet., 1772, pi. 9. Amboina; 

 Moluccas; Schrift. Gesells. Naturf. Fr. Berlin, vol. 3, 1772, p. 459.— 

 Walbaum, Arted. Pise, vol. 3, 1792, p. 420. — Schneider, Syst. Ichth. 

 Blocb, 1801, p. 220. 



Holacanthus diacanthus Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 48 

 (Mauritius, Amboina, Ceram). — Playfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 37 

 (Zanzibar). — Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, 1870, p. 786 

 (Koseir). — GtJNTUER, Cruise of Curagoa, Brenchley, 1873, p. 410 (Misol, 

 Moluccas). — Bleeker, Nederland. Tijds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1874, p. 117 

 (China). — Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, 1875, p. 113. — Gunther, Journ. 

 Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 2-3, Heft 5-6, 1874, p. 50, pi. 40, fig. B (Samoa, 

 Society Islands, Paumotus). — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., vol. 

 9, 1877, p. 65, pi. (0) 363, fig. 5, (not figure 3) (Celebes, Flores, Timor, Ceram, 

 Amboina, Banda, New Guinea). — Klunzinger, Fische Uoth. Meer., 1884, 

 p. 60.— Day, Fauna Brit. India, vol. 2, 1889, p. 17. — Sauvage, Hist. Nat. 

 Madagascar Poiss., 1891, p. 266, pi. 33, fig. 3. — Jordan and Seale, Bull. 

 Bur. Fish., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), p. 34 (Manila).— Weber, Siboga Exp., 

 vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 312 (Banda).— Fowler, Bishop, Mus. Bull., No. 

 22, 1925, p. 34 (Samoa). — Herre and Montalban, Philippine Journ. 

 Sci., vol. 34, No. 1, Sep. 1927, p. 88, pi. 21, fig. 2 (Romblon, Bantayan, 



Chaetodon fasciatus (not Forskal) Bloch, Naturg. Ausl. Fische, vol. 3, 



1787, p. 53, pi. 195 (East Indies).— Walbaum, Arted. Pise, vol. 3, 1792, 



p. 406. 

 Chetodon fasciatus Bonnaterre, Tabl. Ichth., 1788, p. 92, pi. 92, fig. 382 



(East Indies). 

 Chaetodon boddaerti Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Linn., vol. 1, pt. 3, 1789, p. 1243 



(on Boddaert 1772). 

 Acanthopodus boddaerti Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1802, pp. 558, 



559 (Sea of Indies). 

 Chaetodon dux Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Linn., vol. 1, pt. 3, 1789, p. 1255. India. — 



Forster, Fauna Indica, 1795, p. 15. 

 Holacanthus dux Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1802, pp. 527, 534 



(Japan). — Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 184 (Dorey Harbor, 



New Guinea). — RtJPPELL, Neue Wirbelthiere, Fische, 1835, p. 37 CRed 



Sea). 

 Holacanthus chrysurus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p, 188. Dorey 



Harbor, New Guinea. 

 Holacanthus forsteri GCnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 48. 



Ceram (name only). 

 Holacanthus for steni Bleeker, Verh. Kon. Akad. Wet., Amsterdam, vol. 17, 



No. 2, 1877, p. 139 (name in synonymy). 



