1606 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 







becoming gradually deeper downward, this forming a broad blackish lateral 

 band, the edge of which curves upward at base of caudal; a faint brown 

 streak below the dark ; middle line of back black ; head black, with 2 streaks 

 downward and forward from eye; dorsal dark, with wbitish margin; anal 

 brownish, distal half pale ; caudal yellowish, with 2 purple longitudinal bands 

 extending upon the longest rays ; axil with a purple dot ; tip of pectoral dark ; 

 6 small scales before dorsal. LUCASANUS, 2014. 



bo. Body not bicolor. 



c. Body rather deep, the depth 3 to 3| in length, equal to length of head ; nape 

 scaled on median line ; 8 or 9 scales before dorsal ; ventrals short, the 

 outer rays not produced; interopercles meeting below throat; scales 

 27. D. VIII, 13; A. Ill, 11. Color deep brown, each scale on side with 

 a vertical bluish bar at base and margined with pale blue ; sides of head 

 thickly covered with blue spots and broken lines, those on cheek radi- 

 ating from eye ; dorsal and anal purplish, a submarginal pale streak 

 and a narrow white margin ; a black blotch on front of spinous dorsal ; 

 caudal brown, the outer rays tipped with black ; pectorals and ventrals 

 purplish at base, with yellowish distal portion; dorsal spines strong. 



SOCORROENSIS, 2015. 



cc. Body slender, compressed, the depth about 4 in length; ventrals much 



shorter than pectorals. 



d. Ventrals 1 in pectorals ; olive, a violet lateral band, broken poste- 

 riorly; dorsal olive, with a white margin, darker below it; a dark 

 blotch on 4 anterior spines ; a] dark streak on each caudal lobe ,- 

 axil with a black spot. NITIDUS, 2016. 



dd. Ventrals 2 in pectorals ; top of hoad and back brilliant yellow, this 

 color extending on sides of head and to veutrals ; a large yellow 

 blotch on caudal fin; lower parts rosy white; a maroon band 

 backward from eye, breaking up on body into a series of 6 quad- 

 rate spots of bottle green, the last blotch extending on outer 

 rays of caudal ; dorsal mostly greenish, with pale margin, a dark 

 blotch between second and fifth spines; pectorals pale; ven- 

 trals yellow. NITIDISSIMUS, 2017. 

 a. Caudal fin deeply forked, the outer rays much produced, especially in the adult. 

 e. Color not uniform deep green. 



/. Pectoral fin with a large blue black blotch near its tip ; basal half of anal 

 not violet black ; head and caudal fin entirely _bluish violet ; edge of 

 caudal pale; obscure paler streaks on side of head; breast to ventrals 

 violet, paler than head ; body violaceous, its anterior third paler, the 

 scales posteriorly edged with dull violet ; dorsal dull violet, its base 

 paler, its edge whitish; anal with a violet stripe above the pale edge. 



STEINDACHNERI, 2018. 



ff. Pectoral fin with a black blotch at its tip ; body bicolor, the anterior and 

 posterior halves different, anterior half deep blue, the head paler, pos- 

 terior half bottle green, a deep-blue band across body covered by 

 pectoral; a fainter one behind gill opening, the two perhaps sometimes 

 coalescing; spinous dorsal dark; tip of pectoral dark ; caudal pale, its 

 lobes dark blue on the outer part; soft dorsal greenish; anal and 

 ventrals bluish. BIFASCIATUS, 2019. 



fff. Pectoral fin not black at tip ; body not bicolor, bright green throughout, 

 each scale with a purplish bar at base; head, nape, and belly purplish, 

 the head with 4 green streaks on each side, margined with brown; 

 these streaks continued backward as Avavy green streaks on breast ; 

 dorsal and anal purplish, with a wide terminal green band nearly 

 width of fin ; upper and lower caudal rays purplish, the median rays 

 pale; pectorals and ventrals pale, a small black blotch at base of 

 pectorals above. Head 31 ; depth 3^ ; scales covering median line of 



