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Scarus lepidus Jenyns 



Plates 3,c; 15,b,c 



Scarus lepidus Jenyns, Zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Beagle . . . , pt. 4, Fish, 



p. 108, 1842 (type locahty: Tahiti; type examined in British Museum, Cat. 



No. 1917.7.14.47, standard length 180 mm.). 

 Scarus tricolor Bleeker, Verh. Bataviaasch Genootsch., vol. 22, p. 59, 1849 (type 



locality: Batavia, Java; cotype examined in British Museum, Cat. No. 



1862.2.28.9, standard length 189 mm.); Altas ichthyologique . . . , vol. 1, 



p. 39, pi. 17, fig. 1, 1862. 

 Pseudoscarus forsteni Bleeker, Versl. Akad. Amsterdam, vol. 12, p. 238, 1861 (type 



locality: Celebes; Moluccas); Atlas ichthyologique . . . , vol. 1, p. 38, pi. 17, 



fig. 2, 1862. 

 Callyodon latifasciatus Seale and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 33, p. 238, fig. 



7, 1907 (type locality: Zamboanga; holotype USNM 57845; paratype 



USNM 61152). 

 Callyodon laxtoni Whitley, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 22, No. 1, p. 94, 1948 (type 



locality: Ocean Island, Australia). 

 Callyodon viridihusius Fowler and Bean, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 100, vol. 7, p. 459, 



pi. 48, 1928 (type locality: Philippine Islands; holotype USNM 89977; 



paratypes USNM 11981, 157068, 157326, and 160360).— Smith, Rhodes 



Univ., Ichthy. Bull. No. 1, p. 13, pi. 41, j, 1956 (western Indian Ocean south 



to lat. 14° S.). 

 Scarus visayanus Herre, Copeia No. 1, p. 22, 1933 (type locality: Philippine 



Islands; cotype examined in British Museum, Cat. No. 1933.3.11.524). 

 Callyodon forsteri Karmohara, Rep. Usa Mar. Biol. Station, Kochi Univ., Japan, 



vol. 3, No. 1, p. 3, fig. 2, 1956 (Japan). 



This species has 6 or 7 median predorsal scales, 3 rows of scales on 

 the cheek, with 2 to 6 scales in the third or ventral row ; pectoral rays 

 ii,12; teeth white or grayish. In alcohol, the body dorsally and sides 

 are brownish or blackish above level of lower edge of pectoral base; 

 the lower part of head and belly pale, this pale area continuing along 

 each side of body and of anal fin to ventral edge of caudal peduncle; 

 pectoral base dark brown. 



Dr. John Randall, of the University of Hawaii, gives the following 

 color description from a living specimen taken at Wake Island: 

 Olivaceus-brown shading to light salmon-brown ventrally ; an elongate 

 brilliant deep blue patch running from gill opening lengthwise along 

 body behind pectoral fin, ending just beyond tip of extended pectoral; 

 this blotch irregularly margined by bronze-green; throat and chin and 

 upper and lower lips bright salmon pink; teeth white; iris yellowish- 

 orange; dorsal and caudal fins dusky orange; anal fin salmon pink; 

 pectoral fin transparent orange. 



Among 37 specimens that have the broad blue lateral band char- 

 acteristic of lepidus we have been able to sex 12, and they were all 

 females. Bleeker (loc. cit.) illustrated Pseudoscarus forsteni in his 

 fig. 2 as having 3 pale streaks, one on each scale row on lower side of 



