NO. 1714. JAPANESE SEA BASS.— JORDAN AND RICHARDSON. 467 



(Satsuma, a province of southern Japan famous in Japanese history; 

 its chief port is Kagoshima.) 



14. Genus CAPRODON Temrainck and Schlegel. 



Caprodon Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica Pisces, 1842, p. 64 (type 



afterwards named schlegeli). 

 Neoanthias Castelnau, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., vol. 3, 1878, p. 367 {guntheri= 



longimanus). 



Body strongly compressed covered with moderate, rough scales; 

 lateral line complete, running high, the tuhe bifurcate; mouth rather 

 large; canines small; teeth on entopterygoids and tongue; head 

 entirely scaly. Preopercle denticulate; opercle with 3 spines; 7 

 branchiostegals. Dorsal continuous, scaly at base, the rays X, 20, 

 the spinous and soft parts about equal. Anal short. III, 8 or 9. 

 Ventrals below pectorals. Colors brilliant. Tropical Pacific. 



(KOLTzpoi', boar; odoui' tooth.) 



26. CAPRODON SCHLEGELII (Gunther). 

 AKASAGI (red heron = red bass). 



Caprodon Temminck and Schlegel, Faun. Japon., Pise. 1842, p. 64, pi. 30 



(Nagasaki). 

 Anthias schlegelii Gunther, Cat. Fishes, vol. 1, 1859, p. 93 (after Temminck and 



Schlegel).— IsHiKAWA, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 57 (Izu). 

 Anthias {Caprodon) schlegelii Steindachner and Doderlein, Denkschr. Akal 



Wien, vol. 47, 1883, p. 225 (Tokyo). 

 Caprodon schlegelii Boulenger, Cat. Fishes, vol. 1, 1895, p. 314. — Jordan and 



Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, 1901, p. 354 (Tokyo); Bull. U. S. 



Bur. Fish., vol. 26, 1906, p. 211, pi. 12, fig. 1 (Honolulu).— Regan, Ann. Mag. 



Nat. Hist., 7th ser., vol. 15, 1905, p. 18 (Inland Sea of Japan). 



Head 3.3; depth 2.75; depth caudal peduncle 3 in head; eye 3.6; 

 snout 3.8, a little shorter than eye; interorbital space convex 3.2; 

 maxillary 2.2 in head, width of its extremit}^ 1.75 in eye; dorsal X, 

 19 or 20; anal III, 8 or 9; scales 6 or 8-60 to 65-20 to 23. Form 

 oblong, compressed; back evenly curved and moderately elevated; 

 profile convex; mouth moderate, oblique; maxillary reaching past 

 front of pupil; lower jaw projecting; anterior teeth exposed when 

 mouth is closed; villiform teeth in jaws, and on vomer, palatines, 

 entopterygoids, and tongue; a pair of small anteriorly directed 

 canines in both upper and lower jaw at symphysis; on each side of 

 lower jaw, opposite symphysial valve, a short row of backwardly 

 pointed canines; posterior nostril larger than anterior; angle of pre- 

 opercle rounded, its posterior and lower border finely denticulated; 

 opercle with but two evident s])ines; gill-rakers 22 or 23, the longest 

 about l."2 in length of corresponding filaments. Scales rough, ciliate, 

 adherent; head entirely scaled, including mandibles and maxillaries; 

 small scales on bases of fins, extending far out on membranes, those 

 of spinous dorsal forming a distinct sheath whose height is more tliau 



