FAMILY SCORPAENIDAE — SCHULTZ 



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Figure 138. — Diagram of cranial spines on certain species of scorpaenid fishes: a, Sebasta- 

 pistes bynoensis (Richardson); b, S. corallicola Jenkins; c, S. mcadamsi (Fowler); d, Scorpae- 

 nodes parvipinnis (Garrett); e, S. kelloggi (Jenkins);/, Sebastapiites albobrunnea (Giin- 

 ther); g, Scorpaenodes guamensis (Quoy and Gaimard); h, Pterois radiata Cuvier and 

 Valenciennes; i, Hypo?nacrus brocki, new species; ;", Pterois antennata (Bloch); k, P. 

 lunulata Temminck and Schlegel; /, Brachirus biocellatus (Fowler). 



last dorsal spine 1.1 and in longest dorsal spine 1.3; length of first 

 anal spine in second 1.8 to 1.9; pelvics reach to anus. 



This species is characterized by the long preorbital barbel and 

 the two ocellate spots in the soft dorsal fin; body and head, except 

 maxillary and underside of head, covered with ctenoid scales; underside 

 of head anteriorly with spinules; tongue rather long; palatine teeth 

 absent; concave notch at tip of premaxillaries into which fits the tip 

 of lower jaw. 



Color in alcohol. — Ground color whitish with blackish vertical bars, 

 one from dorsal surface of snout to preorbital cirrus, one between 

 preocular spines, one from occiput to dorsal origin ventrally across 

 operculum and pectoral base to pelvic insertion, one from middle of 

 spinous dorsal to abdomen, one from soft dorsal base to anal, one 

 across base of caudal fin followed by a pale bar; pectoral and caudal 



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