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Sea).— GtJNTHER, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 4, 1875, p. 121, pi. 79, fig;. A, 

 text fig. 5 (Tahiti; Kingsmills).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 2, 1876, p. 209, 

 pi. 48. fig. 4. — Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1876, p. 440 

 (Mauritius). — Schmeltz, Mus. Godeffroy Cat., No. 6, 1877, p. 15 (Zan- 

 zibar). — Klunzingkr, Fische Roth. Meer., 1884, p. 86.^Boulengbr, Proc. 

 Zool.Soc. London, 1889, p. 239 (Muscat). — Day, Fauna Brit. India, vol- 

 2, 1889, p. 146, fig. 55.— ViNCiGUERRA, Spall. Giorn. Roma. Sci. Biol., vol. 

 19, No. 2, 1890, p. 486 (Zanzibar).— Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 

 1913, p. 321 (Saleyer). — Zugmayer, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Phys. 

 Kl., vol. 26, abth. 6, 1913, p. 12 (Oman). 

 Naso brevirostris Herre, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 34, No. 4, Dee. 1927, 

 p. 450, pi. 5, fig. 3 (Olongapo, Calapan, Bulalacao Bay, Romblon, Tablas, 

 Sibuyan, Tagapula, Bantayan Zamboanga, Sitanki). 



Fig. 17. —Rostral variation with age of Naso brevirostris (Valenciennes) 



Naseus hoedtii Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 5, 1853, p. (319) 

 339. Amboina; vol. 6, 1854, p. 457 (Amboina); vol. 8, 1855, p. 393 

 (Amboina). 



Depth 2 to 2%; head 3% to 4, width 1% to 2%. Snout 1% to 

 1^ in head from snout tip; eye 2% to 434, 1^ to 2% in snout, 1 to 

 13^ in interorbital ; teeth 46 to 54 in jaws, small, inconspicuous; max- 

 illary 3 to 43^ in head; interorbital 2% to 33^, broadly convex. Gill 

 rakers 3 to 5 + 9, short, robust, conic tubercles. 



Skin everywhere minutely asperous, asperities coarser^n young. 



