﻿PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  UNITED 
  STATES 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  issued 
  

  

  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION 
  

   U. 
  S. 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Vol. 
  103 
  Wajhington: 
  1953 
  No. 
  3323 
  

  

  REVIEW 
  OF 
  THE 
  INDO-PACIFIC 
  ANEMONE 
  FISHES, 
  GENUS 
  

   AMPHIPRION, 
  WITH 
  DESCRIPTIONS 
  OF 
  TWO 
  NEW 
  

   SPECIES. 
  

  

  By 
  Leonard 
  P. 
  Schultz 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  summer 
  of 
  1950 
  Dr. 
  Arthur 
  D. 
  Welander, 
  School 
  o 
  

   Fisheries, 
  University 
  of 
  Washington, 
  and 
  I 
  were 
  engaged 
  in 
  studying 
  

   reef 
  fishes 
  brought 
  back 
  from 
  the 
  Marshall 
  Islands 
  by 
  the 
  staff 
  of 
  the 
  

   Applied 
  Fisheries 
  Laboratory 
  of 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Washington. 
  

   Among 
  this 
  material 
  was 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  anemone 
  fish 
  that 
  we 
  could 
  

   not 
  identify 
  with 
  any 
  known 
  species. 
  After 
  I 
  returned 
  to 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  

   National 
  Museum, 
  I 
  reviewed 
  the 
  descriptions 
  of 
  all 
  known 
  species, 
  

   compared 
  that 
  specimen 
  with 
  the 
  numerous 
  lots 
  of 
  Amphiprion 
  in 
  

   the 
  National 
  Museum, 
  and 
  found 
  that 
  it 
  represented 
  a 
  new 
  species. 
  

   During 
  March 
  1951, 
  I 
  studied 
  the 
  anemone 
  fishes 
  in 
  the 
  Museum 
  

   of 
  Comparative 
  Zoology, 
  Harvard 
  University, 
  and 
  found 
  another 
  

   undescribed 
  species 
  from 
  Mauritius. 
  

  

  Descriptions 
  and 
  analyses 
  of 
  species 
  referable 
  to 
  the 
  genus 
  Amphi- 
  

   prion 
  have 
  been 
  based 
  on 
  so 
  few 
  specimens, 
  usually 
  only 
  one 
  or 
  two, 
  

   that 
  the 
  problem 
  of 
  variability 
  or 
  constancy 
  of 
  the 
  color 
  pattern 
  has 
  

   been 
  neglected. 
  For 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  few 
  hundred 
  species 
  among 
  more 
  

   than 
  fifty 
  fish 
  families 
  that 
  I 
  have 
  studied 
  in 
  detail 
  the 
  basic 
  color 
  

   pattern 
  has 
  been 
  observed 
  to 
  be 
  fairly 
  constant. 
  It 
  is 
  of 
  great 
  value 
  

   for 
  the 
  recognition 
  of 
  species, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  genus 
  Amphiprion. 
  

   Weber 
  and 
  de 
  Beaufort 
  (The 
  fishes 
  of 
  the 
  Indo-Australian 
  Archipelago, 
  

   vol. 
  8, 
  pp. 
  330-348, 
  1940) 
  recognized 
  eight 
  species, 
  whereas 
  we 
  have 
  

   distinguished 
  fom-teen 
  and 
  there 
  may 
  be 
  others 
  recognizable 
  when 
  

   larger 
  series 
  are 
  compared 
  and 
  additional 
  characters 
  studied. 
  Fin 
  

   ray 
  counts 
  were 
  made 
  on 
  various 
  species 
  and 
  these 
  data 
  are 
  recorded 
  

   in 
  table 
  1. 
  

  

  Except 
  for 
  original 
  descriptions, 
  no 
  attempt 
  was 
  made 
  to 
  include 
  

   all 
  references 
  to 
  species 
  referable 
  to 
  the 
  genus 
  Amphiprion. 
  Whenever 
  

  

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