NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES—FOWLER 65 
Family CIRRHITIDAE 
Genus CYPRINOCIRRHITES Tanaka 
CYPRINOCIRRHITES STIGMA, new species 
FIGURE 11 
Depth 246; head 244, width 275. Snout short, broad, convex, 
length 614 in head measured from snout tip, which is level with 
lower edge of pupil; eye 314, greatly exceeds snout or interorbital but 
not invading upper profile of head; orbit 234 in head as measured 
from snout tip; maxillary reaches below front eye edge, expansion 
27% in eye, length 324 in head from snout tip; teeth minute, simple, 
in narrow bands in jaws, uniform or without enlarged canines; no 
teeth evident on palate; interorbital 514, low, broadly convex; hind 
preopercle edge well inclined forward, with 14 uniform strong close- 
set denticles; suborbitals narrow, entire. Gill rakers 4+10, slender, 
lanceolate, long as gill filaments or longer. 
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Ficure 11.—Cyprinocirrhites stigma, new species: Type (U.S.N.M. No. 99505). 
Scales 38 in lateral line to caudal base; 4 scales above to first dorsal 
origin, 9 below to anal origin; 14 predorsal forward to front of 
snout; 3 rows of scales on cheek; large scales on opercles. Small 
scales on chest, breast, and prepectoral region. Bases of vertical fins 
all finely scaled, also small scales on pectoral basally. 
D. XI, 17, 1, first spine 4 in total head length, third spine 134; A. 
III, 6, 1, second spine 2, second ray 2, caudal 224 in rest of fish, 
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