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Figure 143. — Hypomacrus brocki, new species, holotype, USNM 99782, from Talisse Island, 

 Dutch East Indies. Drawn by Dorothea B. Schultz. 



Description. — This description is based on holotype and paratypes 

 from the Philippine region and northern Marshall Islands. Detailed 

 measurements were made and these, expressed in thousandths of the 



Table 124. — Measurements for species of Hypomacrus in thousandths of standard 



length 



Characters 



brocki 



Paratype 

 (from 

 station 



8^6-238) 



Paratype 

 (from 

 station 



S-46-308) 



Holotype 



(USNM 



99782) 



albaiensis 



Holotype 



(USNM 

 55902) 



Standard length in millimeters _ 



Length of head - 



Greatest depth of body 



Length of snout 



Diameter of eye 



Postorbital length of head _. 



Least bony width of interorbital 



Distance: 



Snout tip to dorsal origin 



Snout tip to anal origin. 



Snout tip to pelvic insertion.. 



Snout tip to pectoral insertion.. 



Base last anal ray to midbase of caudal fin. 



Least depth of caudal peduncle 



Longest: 



Simple ray of pectoral to. 



Branched ray of pectoral to 



Dorsal spine --- 



Soft dorsal ray 



Caudal to ray 



Length of: 



Second anal spine 



Third anal spine 



Base of dorsal to 



Base of anal fin 



27.0 

 444 

 296 

 122 

 115 

 226 

 41 



426 

 720 

 411 

 426 

 159 

 100 



307 

 218 

 96 



148 



21.0 

 456 

 300 

 129 



no 



233 

 33 



448 

 757 

 438 

 434 

 167 

 100 



338 

 214 

 110 



167 



178 

 148 

 510 

 115 



167 

 143 

 500 

 124 



34.5 

 450 

 290 

 119 

 113 

 217 

 65 



420 

 725 

 420 

 418 

 154 

 96 



327 

 203 

 107 

 130 

 246 



203 

 154 

 507 

 125 



49.3 

 448 

 304 

 120 

 122 

 225 

 51 



426 

 779 

 420 

 406 

 158 

 107 



385 

 223 

 122 

 183 

 264 



203 

 150 

 497 

 108 



