FAMILY ANTENNARIIDAE — SCHULTZ 141 



18&. Color mottled or striped with dark brown; fins and belly 

 dark spotted. (Japan; Mauritius.) 



P. tridens (Temminck and Schlegel) 



12b. Fleshy tip of first dorsal spine consists of a simple tentacle or is 



filamentous or bulbous with or without filaments or a 



combination of any of these. 



19o. Bony part of first dorsal spine notably slender, fleshy tip 



consisting of a nonfilamcntous simple slender tentacle, 



sometimes somewhat lanceolate. 



20o. Caudal peduncle absent or indistinct; all rays of soft dorsal 



simple; skin thick and firm, covered with chagreenlike 



denticles; third dorsal spine bound down with skin; 



no naked area behind second or third dorsal spines; 



body mottled with brown or a very coarse network of 



brown; usually a dark bar across anal fin and basally 



across caudal fin. {Antennatus Schultz.) 



21a. Pectoral rays 11, first dorsal spine usually a little longer 



than second dorsal spine. (Central and western 



Pacific and Indian oceans.) ...A. bigibbus Lacepede 



21b. Pectoral rays usually 10, occasionally 9; first dorsal spine 



about same length as second dorsal spine. (Eastern 



Pacific.) A. strigatus Gill 



206. Caudal peduncle distinct; third dorsal spine movable. 



22a. Dorsal soft rays all divided; no pelvic ray divided; body 

 rather profusely covered with dark specks and ir- 

 regularly shaped dark and light marks; pectoral 

 rays usually 9, occasionally 10; anal 7. (Eastern 

 and western Pacific and Indian oceans; genus 

 Lophiocharon Whitley.) 



L. caudimaculatus (Riippell) 

 226. Last 2 or 3 or none of the soft dorsal rays divided; 

 pectoral rays 10 to 12; bony part of first dorsal 

 spine as long as or longer than second dorsal spine; 

 dorsal soft rays 12 or 13, only last 2 or 3 soft dorsal 

 rays divided; pectoral rays 10 to 12; anal rays 8 

 or 9; color dark browTi, spotted with blackish; 

 some ocellate spots present. (Central and western 

 tropical Pacific Ocean; Subgenus Uniantennatus 



Schultz.) L. horridus Bleeker 



196. Fleshy tip of first dorsal spine consists of a group of filaments 

 or a ribbonlike tentacle with filaments or tentacles or a 

 bulbous tip or combination of these. {Germs Antennarius 

 Lacepfede.) 

 23a. All or at least last 8 of the soft dorsal rays divided. 



24o. All of the pelvic soft rays divided ; caudal peduncle distinct, 

 "bait" consists of a tuft of tentacles or a bulbouslike 

 "bait"; soft dorsal rays usually 13; anal 8; bony part 

 of first dorsal spine shorter than or about as long as 

 second dorsal spine; all pectoral rays divided (except 

 possibly in A. sarasa); pectoral rays 13. (Sub- 

 genus FoiolericJithys Barbour.) 

 25a. Soft dorsal rays all divided except possibly first 2 or 3 

 in small specimens; an ocellate spot posterobasally 



