i"orpholof»y - Coloi-at ion 'varies widely. 5omo specimens are yellon (as in Fifr, 

 65 )» and some are browi, both varieties having snail irregular black spots 

 scattered over the body. The posterior ed.'^es of all fins are white, 

 CTable 1233 

 LPafre 107] 

 LTable 12/^ 



Toxicity . The liver appears to contain poison. 



[VsLRe loej Section 13 Addenda 



In the foregoin^T sections the author has been able to record a total of 

 46 species of poisonous fish, including three species of tetraodonts, but it 

 may easily be imagined that this does not exliaust t'le number of poisonous fishes 

 occurring in the Marianas and T'^rshallSo 



Those clearly identified Species w'lich have in the past been reported as 

 poisonous either in the literature or in popular tradition have all been re- 

 corded in the precedini^ sections, regai^iless of whether or not \ie collected and 

 tested them, however, there remain a number of' poisonous fishes i^hich vje vjere 

 unable to take and whose identity is uncertain, or which ne were unable to test 

 and concerninr^ the toxicity of nhich suspicion exists. B^/ citing them here we 

 intend to supplement the various sections of this chapter and con^lete the 

 mention of all of the poisonous fishes of the South Seris area. 



For the poisonous fishes of the ^arshalls area, as noted in Section 2 of 

 Chapter I, Tiatsuo has made a detailed report, recordint^ the names of 36 

 poisonous species as ^iven hy the natives. Of these, 23 have been definitely 

 recognised as included in the present report. Amont^ the rest there are proba- 

 bly some which are included under different names. (In the 'larshalls the names 

 differ in the Ralik and !latak chains, and it is hard to identify the species 

 vjhen it is not known which name has been usedO This group will be taken up 

 first. Tentative identifications have been made of two or three by reference 

 to the accompanying photcpraphs. In the case of two or three others '.le asked 

 nany natives, osinT: the names !?;iven, an' they ^lere unl-rnown to them. In other 

 cases, however, they -.vere able to give uc a general account of the appearance 

 of the fish. There are some other species commonly oai' to be ooisonous '.vhich 

 were not listed by '^atsuo, and they are recorded in this section as follows: 



1. au.jbak 



Judging by the accompanying photograph this is thought to 

 be the akaeso, Synodus variegatus . Natives interviewed by the 

 author did not know that this was a poisonous species, "atsuo 

 gives it as violently and fatally toxic. Ve were not able to 

 collect it and so could not test it. 



It is recorded here as doubtful. 



2, ikuit 



"?hen Ilarshallese natives were shown natural color plates, 

 they identified this with the hiodoshihata . Eoinephelus leopard us . 

 The fish reported by Matsuo has several alternate yellow and black 

 lines on the scales, differing in this respect from the 

 hiodoshihata identified by the nritives. The hiodoshiliata is 



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