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TABLE 1 (cont'd) 



Family MONACANTHIDAE 



Aluterus scriptus (Osbcck, 1765). 



Alutera scripta Woods, 1966. 

 Amanses scopas (Cuvier, 1829); Woods, 1966. 

 Brachahteres ta\;lori Woods, 1966. 

 Cantherhines dumerilii (Hollard, 1854). 



Amanses carohe Woods, 1966. Randall (1964b) determined that Cantherhines carolae (Jordan and McGregor) is a 

 junior synonym of C. dumerilii. 

 Cantherhines fronticinctus (Playfair and Giinther, 1867): Randall, 1986. 

 Cantherhines pardalis (Ruppell, 1837). 



Amanses sandwichiensis Woods, 1966. Randall (1964b) showed that C. sandaiichiensis (Quoy and Gaimard) is endemic to 

 the Hawaiian Islands. The correct name for the wide-ranging species from elsewhere in the Indo-Pacific is C. pardalis. 

 Ox^imonacanthus longirostris (Bloch and Schneider, 1801): Woods, 1966. 

 Paraluteres prionurus (Bleeker, 1851): Woods, 1966. 

 Paramonacanthus cri;ptodon (Bleeker, 1855): Woods, 1966. 

 Paramonacanthus oblongus (Temminck and Schlegel, 1846): Woods, 1966. 

 Pervagor altemans (Ogilby, 1899). 



Peruagor melanocephalus marshallensis Woods, 1966. Synonymy from Hutchins, 1986. 

 Peruagor aspricaudatus Hollard, 1854. 



Pervagor melanocephalus johnstonensis Woods, 1966. 

 Peruagor melanocephalus (Bleeker, 1853). This record based on one specimen reported by Hutchins, 1986. 

 Family OSTRACIIDAE 



Lactoria fornasini (Bianconi, 1846): Woods, 1966. 

 Ostracion cubicus Linnaeus, 1758: Woods, 1966. 

 Ostracion meleagris Shaw, 1796: Woods, 1966. 

 Family TETRAODONTIDAE 



Amblvrhi)ncbotes honckenii (Bloch, 1785): Randall, 1986 (after Strasburg). 



Arothron hispidus (Linnaeus, 1758): Woods and Schultz, 1966. 



Arothron manilensis (Proce, 1822): Randall (1985) has shown that the strongly striped A. manilensis is a distinct species 



from the related unmarked A. immaculatus (Bloch and Schneider). 

 Arothron mappa (Lesson, 1826): Randall, 1986 (after Strasburg). 

 Arothron meleagris (Lacepede, 1798): Woods and Schultz, 1966. 

 Arothron nigropunctatus (Bloch and Schneider, 1801): Woods and Schultz, 1966. 

 Arothron stellatus (Bloch and Schneider, 1801). 



Arothron alboreticulatus Woods and Schultz, 1966. 

 Canthigaster amboinensis (Bleeker, 1865): Woods, 1966. 

 Canthigaster bennetti (Bleeker, 1854): Randall, 1986. 

 Canthigaster coronata (Vaillant and Sauvage, 1875): Randall, 1986. 

 Canthigaster epilampra (Jenkins, 1903): Randall, 1986. 

 Canthigaster janthinoptera (Bleeker, 1855). 



Canthigaster jactator Woods. Allen and Randall (1977) regarded C. jactator (Jenkins) as a Hawaiian endemic. The 

 related widespread species from elsewhere in the Indo-Pacific region is C. janthinoptera. 

 Canthigaster solandri (Richardson, 1844): Woods, 1966. 

 Canthigaster ualentini (Bleeker, 1953): Randall, 1986. 

 Family DIODONTIDAE 



Diodon hystrix Linnaeus, 1758: Woods, 1966. 

 Diodon liturosus Shaw, 1804: Randall. 1986. 



this list. Only a few such fishes have been reported from 

 the area. Schultz in Schultz ct al. (1953), for example, 

 listed only two myctophids, M\ictophurn brachi/gnathos 

 (Bleeker) and Diaphus schmidti Taning, both by name only. 

 Of the Gonostomatidae, Grey (1960) recorded only 

 Diphphos sp. {taenia complex), Gonostoma atlanticum Nor- 

 man, and G. ebelingi Grey from the Marshalls region. R. K. 

 Johnson recently identified a giganturid (BPBM 26320, 

 62.3 mm SL) taken with a midwater trawl at 11°20'N, 



162°07'E at a depth of to 200 m as Rosaura indica 

 (Brauer). 



There has not been adequate sampling of deep-water 

 fishes from the Marshall Islands or, for that matter, from 

 the islands of Oceania in general (except the Hawaiian 

 Islands). Even species of moderate depths {100 to 300 m), 

 such as snappers of the genera Etelis and Pristipomoides 

 have not been reported from the Marshalls, though some 

 surely occur there. If complete collections were made of 



