DD. JUVENILE (less than 2 inches long) 

 dark blue, with vertical bluish-white 

 bars on head and body, and yellow-or- 

 ange on jaws, below eye, and on ventral 

 and caudal fins; fourth bar (counting 

 from front to rear) conspicuously 

 curved. SUBADULT individuals with 

 the bars fading and the body becoming 

 paler with the adult pattern forming. 

 ADULTS bluish to greenish on body, 

 with orange triangles on large scales of 

 body; large black spot speckled and en- 

 circled with blue present on nape, with 

 orange streak immediately posterior to 

 it; a large black spot with a blue bar 

 present at base of pectoral fin ; black 

 blotches present on last rays of dorsal 

 and anal fins; caudal fin entirely yel- 

 low 



queen angelfish. 



Holacanthus ciliaris" 



(Fig. 10-12). 



Figure 11. — Holacanthus ciliaris, subadult, 84.4 mm 

 SL (4 inches TL). 



Figure 10. — Holacanthus ciliaris, juvenile, 43.2 mm 

 SL (2 inches TL). 



Figure 12. — Holacanthus ciliaris, queen angelfish, 

 adult, 201 mm SL (9 inches TL). 



' Occasionally, angelfishes are found that display color 

 patterns intermediate between those of the queen and 

 blue angelfishes. These individuals are hybrids between 

 the two species. (See Feddern, H. A., 19G8a and b, for 

 a more complete analysis of the status of these hybrids.) 



