FAMILY MICRODESMIDAE — SCHULTZ 



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3b. Rear tip of opercle without black spot; pelvics about same length as 

 pectorals; dorsal rays 58 to 59; anal 37 to 38 G. irideus Smith ^ 



GUNNELLICHTHYS PLEUROTAENIA Bleeker 



Plate 124, B 



Gunnellichthys pleurotaenia Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerl., vol. 3, p. 10, 1858 



(type locality, off Menado in Celebes Sea.) — de Beaufort in de Beaufort and 



Chapman, Fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago, vol. 5, p. 448, fig. 86, 



1951 (Bali; Celebes). 

 Paragobioides grandocuHs Kendall and Goldsborough, Mem. Mus. Comp. 



Zool., vol. 26, No. 7, p. 324, pi. 6, fig. 2, 1911 (type locality, Arno Atoll, 



Marshall Islands; holotype USNM 65975). 

 Taenaeoides gertrudae Fowler, Bernice P. Bishop Mus. Bull. 22, p. 17, 1925 (type 



locality, Guam); Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 419, fig. 64, 1928 {Taenaeoides 



an error for Taenioides) . 

 Microdesmus gertrudae Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 12, No. 2, p. 152, 1949 



(first referral to family Microdesmidae). 



SPECIMENS STUDIED 



Marshall Islands: Arno Atoll, holotype of P. grandocuHs (USNM 65975). 

 Guam: tidepool, June 29 and July 7, 1949, Eugenie Clark, 1 specimen, 55.3 mm. 

 in standard length (USNM 163658). 



Philippines: Luzon Island, Port Matalvi, 1 specimen, 47 mm. 



Description. — Detailed measurements were made on the Guam 

 specimen and these are expressed in thousandths of the standard 

 length, which is 55.3 mm. (total length 59.9 mm.): Length of head 

 141; tip of chin to rear of head 154; greatest depth 76; diameter of eye 

 25; snout 33; interorbital space 14; snout tip to dorsal origin 154; 

 snout tip to anus 474; longest ray of dorsal 47, anal 51, caudal 99, 

 pectoral 68, and pelvic 29. 



Table 121. — Counts for species of Gunnellichthys 



*These counts include Bleeker's types and the liolotype of P. grandoculis. 



**The counts recorded for these species were kindly furnished by Dr. J. L. B. Smith in a letter dated March 

 11, 1958. 



Dorsal rays XIX,39 = 58; anal 36; pectoral i,12-i,13; pelvic 1,4; 

 caudal ii+H+ii. It is very difficult to observe the presence or 

 absence of cross-striations in the first and second anal rays. The anal 

 fin origin is under the nineteenth dorsal fin ray. 



• Gunnellichthys irideus Smith, ibid., p. 128, fig. 2F, (type locality, Pinda, Mozambique). 



