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spots all over the body appears to represent the typical color patterns 

 of the large specimens of this species. 



EPINEPHELUS HORRIDUS (Cuvier and Valenciennes) 



Figure 156 



Serranus horridus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons, 



vol. 2, p. 321, 1828 (type locality, Java). 

 Epinephelus fuscoguttatus Schuxtz (in part), U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 202, vol. 1, 



p. 351, pi. 26, fig. A, 1953 (Rongerik Atoll; Canton Island; Apia). — Randall, 



Atoll Res. Bull. 4, p. 48, 1955 (Onotoa). 



SPECIMENS STUDIED 



Rongerik Atoll: 1 specimen, 230 mm. in standard length (USNM 141958), 



Bikini Atoll: 1 specimen, 167 mm. (USNM 141944); 1 specimen, 193 mm. 

 (USNM 141948). 



Eniwetok Atoll: 2 specimens, 205 and 325 mm. (USNM 141954). 



Rongelap Atoll: 2 specimens, 320 and 370 mm. (USNM 141953); 1 specimen, 

 290 mm, (USNM 65821). 



Onotoa Atoll: 1 specimen, 298 mm. (USNM 167475). 



Arno Atoll: 1 specimen, 350 mm. (USNM 166842). 



Canton Island: 4 specimens, 132 to 159 mm. (USNM 115367). 



Apia, Samoa: 1 specimen, 280 mm. (USNM 52477). 



Funafuti, Ellice Islands: 1 specimen, 198 mm. (USNM 65823). 



Makemo, Paumotu Island: 3 specimens, young not measured (USNM 65822). 



Solomons: New Georgia, 1 specimen, 270 mm. (USNM 164340). 



New Caledonia: 1 specimen, 295 mm. (USNM 164341). 



Figure 156. — Epinephelus horridus (Cuvier and Valenciennes), immature specimen, after 



Fowler 



Description. — In addition to the differences indicated in counts 

 recorded in table 134 between E. juscoguttatus and this species, the 

 following differences in coloration have been noted. 



E. horridus has the ventral part of the body profusely dark spotted 

 whereas the dorsal part of head and body generally lack these dark 



