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Lutjanus dodecacanthoides Bleeker, Atlas Ichth, lud. N^erland., vol. 7, 1873- 

 1876, pi. (18) 296, fig. 2; vol. 8, 1876-1877, p. 60 (Sumbawa, Amboina). 



Lutianus dodecanthoides Jordan and Sealej, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 

 (1907), p. 20 (Manila). 



Depth 21/8 to 21/3 ; head 23/5 to 23^, width 21/3 to 21/2. Snout 2% 

 to 3 in head from snout tip ; eye 4 to 4l^, ll^ to 1% in snout, greater 

 than interorbital in young to 1% with age ; maxillary reaches 1^ to 

 14 in eye in young or to eye with age, expansion 1% to 2^4 in eye, 

 length 21/2 to 2% in head from snout tip ; teeth in narrow villif orm 

 bands in jaws, with outer row moderately enlarged, conic, curved; 

 pair slightly enlarged as front canines and lateral mandibulars, 

 scarcely larger than others; crescentic band of villif orm teeth on 

 vomer and short band on each palatine, tongue smooth ; interorbital 

 414 to 5, convexly elevated; preopercle edge finely denticulate, 

 scarcely emarginate above angle. Gill rakers 5 + 14, lanceolate, of 

 which 4 as rudiments above; others equal gill filaments or 1% 

 in eye. 



Scales 49 to 52 in lateral line to caudal base and 7 or 8 more on 

 latter; 10 to 12 scales above lateral line, 18 to 22 below, 15 or 16 

 predorsal forward to occiput, 7 rows on cheek. Suprascapula entire. 

 Scales with 16 to 19 basal radiating striae ; apical denticles 72 to 85 ; 

 circuli fine. 



D. X or XI, 14, I, fourth spine 2I/3 to 2i/^ in total head length, 

 ninth ray 1% to 2; A. Ill, 9, i, third spine 2% to 3i/^, fourth ray 

 1% to 2l^; caudal 1% to 1%, slightly emarginate; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 2^^ to 2%; pectoral 1 to 1%; ventral 1% to 1%. 



Back brown, lower side and under surface whitish. Each row of 

 scales with slightly darker median line, following in oblique lines to 

 cross lateral line. Fins all dull brown. Pale spot on caudal pedun- 

 cle above followed by dark saddlelike blotch. Iris yellowish brown. 



India, East Indies, Philippines, Formosa, Japan? A deep-bodied 

 sjDecies with caudal nearly truncate and soft dorsal and anal pointed. 

 Bleeker gives the maximum length as 480 mm. 



Di(wope timoriensis Quoy and Gaimard is without the dark pale- 

 bordered saddle on the caudal peduncle above and the preopercle is 

 shown with only a slight emargination. 



Diacope calveti as figured by Sauvage, from an example 325 mm. 

 long obtained by Dussumier, belongs to another species. It is shown 

 with a deep preopercular notch, bony process opposite; scales in 

 oblique rows above lateral line, horizontal rows below; soft dorsal 

 and anal rounded. 



5591. Batangas market. June 7, 1908. Length 165 mm. 



5846, 5847. Cotabato market. May 20, 1908. Length 265 to 353 mm. [5846]. 

 Oblique lines above more or less dusky. Soft dorsal and caudal edged with 

 blackish, anal with white. Pectoral axil dark. Ventral fronts white. 

 [5847]. General color red. as spots on scales above giving rise to oblique 



