FAMILY SCORPAENIDAE — SCHULTZ 35 



was the ocellate black spot surrounded by bright orange on posterior 

 side of pectoral fin and its base. 



Ecology. — This species is rather rare, at least in the shallower parts 

 of the reefs where we took most of our specimens. It prefers abundant 

 growths of corals and algae that occur in both the lagoon and ocean 

 reefs. 



Remarks. — This species is the only one so far encountered in the 

 northern Marshall Islands that has two spiny points on the nasal bone 

 and the only species with the posterior side of the pectoral fin bright 

 orange. 



S. cacopsis Jenkins from Oahu is a species distinct from S. gibbosa. 

 Scorpaena axillaris Bliss, type MCZ 6028, from Mauritius, differs 

 from S. gibbosa in not having the black spot in the oral membrane at 

 the symphysis of the premaxillary between the teeth. 



Genus SCORPAENODES Bleeker 



Scorpaenodes Bleeker, Nat. Tijschr. Nederl. -Indie, vol. 13, p. 371, 1857 (type 

 species, Scorpaena polylepis Bleeker = S. guainensis Quoy and Gaimard). 



SCORPAENODES KELLOGGI (Jenkins) 



Plate 127,0; Figures 138,e; 142 



Sebastopsis kelloggi Jenkins, Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish., vol. 22 (1902), p. 492, fig. 37, 

 1903 (type locality, reef at Honolulu; holotype USNM 50694). 



SPECIMENS STUDIED 



Bikini Atoll: 2 stations, 13 specimens, 17 to 35 mm. in standard length. 

 Eniwetok Atoll: 1 station, 1 specimen, 24 mm. 

 Rongelap Atoll: 1 station, 1 specimen. 26 ram. 



Description. — Dorsal rays XIII, 8; anal 111,5; pectoral ii or iii,5 

 or 6,viii or ix; branched caudal 6+5; pelvics 1,5; vertical scale rows 

 from upper edge of gill opening to midbase of caudal fin 30 or 31; 

 pores in lateral line about 20 or 21. 



Depth 3.0 to 3.2; head 2.5 to 2.6; both in standard length. Snout 

 3.8 to 4.4; eye 3.0 to 3.3; postorbital part of head 2.0 to 2.2; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 3.5 to 3.7; longest ray of pectoral fin 1.4; 

 longest dorsal spine 3.5 to 4.2; all in length of head. Least width of 

 bony interorbital 1.8 to 2.1 in eye; least depth of caudal peduncle in 

 its length 1.5 to 1.7; next to last dorsal spine in last dorsal spine 1.3 

 to 1.5 and in longest dorsal spine 1.8; length of first anal spine 2.0 in 

 second; pelvics reach to or not quite to anus. 



This species has small dermal cirri on some of the cranial spines, 

 the one on the supraocular about equal to diameter of pupil; scales 

 ctenoid on body and on head except snout and under side of head, 

 maxillary probably naked too; palatine teeth absent; preorbital bone 



