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12. DACTYLOPTENA Jordan and Richardson, ne-w genus. 



This genus differs from Cephdlacanthns " in having the spinous 

 dorsal fin preceded by a detached Unlet, consisting of one spine and 

 a fully developed posterior membrane. With that genus and with 

 Daicocus it agrees in possessing no lateral line. A long ray-like fila- 

 ment behind the occiput. (Iiaracters otherwise those of the family. 



{ScYKTi'Xos, finger; Trreyog, winged.) 



Japan, Hawaii, and the East Indies; a single species known. 



Type of genus. — Dactyloptena orientalis. 



spine and there is a long occipital ray as in Dactyloptena, to which the present genus 

 seems most nearly related. 



{Ebisu, the Japanese fish-god, god of the lish markets, from EbisK a barbarian or 

 foreigner.) 



East Indies and Philippines; a single species known; a second (as yet undescril)ed) 

 taken by Gilbert and Snyder at Nagasaki. 



EBISINUS CHEIROPHTHALMUS (Bleeker). 



Dactylo-pterus vheiwphthalmiis Blekkeu, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind., VII, Oct. 1854, 



p. 494 (Banda Neira). 

 Dactylopterus macracanthus Bleeker, Bijdr. Ichth. Celebes, VI, Nov. 1854, 



p. 449 (Macassar in mari. — GiJNTHER, Cat, Fishes, II, 1860, p. 223 (Molucca 



Sea) (after Bleeker). 



Fig. 8— Ebisinus cheirophthalmus. 

 Dactylopterus chiropJdhalmus GIjnther, Cat. Fishes, II, 1860, p. 223 (Sea of Banda 



Neira) (after Bleeker). (Amended spelling). 

 Cephalacanthus macracanthus , Jordan and Seale, Bidl. IT. S. Fish Comm., XXVI, 

 1906, p. 40 (Manila, Cavite, Panay). 

 Molucca and Philippine Seas. 



a Characters of the genus to l)e found in footnote to key to genera of family Cepha- 

 lacanthidse, preceding. 



