Jordan a?id Evermann Fishes of North America. 1633 



at Bahia, and by Dr. Bean at Cozumel. (onXov, weapon; juvtira^, upper 

 jaw.) 



Labrus radians, CASTELNAU, Anim. Nouv., etc., Amerique du Sud, 29, 1855; not Scarus 



radians, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES. 

 Scarus radians, GUNTHER, Cat., iv, 211; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 906, 1883; not of 



CUVIER & VALENCIENNES. 

 Scarus hoplomystax, COPE, Trans. Am. Philo. Soc. 1869, 462, St. Martins. (Coll. Dr. J. 



Van Rijgersma.) 

 Kparisoma cyanolene, JORDAN & SWAIN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 98, Key West (Coll. 



Jordan & Dye) ; BEAN, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 1888, 198. 

 Sparitoma hoj^lomystax, JORDAN, Review Labroid Fishes, 677, pi. 10, 1890. 



2043. SPARISOMA MPHOBLES, Jordan & Bollman. 



Head 3? (4 with caudal); depth 3f (4); eye moderate, 4| in head; 

 snout obtuse, 2*. D. IX, 10; A. 11; scales 2-24-6. Body oblong. A 

 small canine directed downward on each side in front of upper jaw above 

 cutting edge and close to the median suture; another single stout canine 

 directed outward and backward on each side of the upper jaw in front 

 of angle of mouth; upper lip covering most of upper jaw; cheeks with 

 1 row of 5 large scales ; tubes of lateral line each with 3 to 5 branches, 

 usually 3 ; 4 scales on median line before dorsal. Caudal truncate, the 

 outer rays not produced, If in head. Color in spirits, brownish olive, the 

 color so mottled and speckled with whitish as almost to hide the ground 

 color; head much speckled with bluish and black; dark spots smaller 

 and more denned on top of head; brownish regions most prominent 

 around eyes and lower part of cheeks ; chin crossed by a silvery band, 

 behind which is a brownish band, and then a row of six silvery spots, of 

 which the lowermost are largest; an ill-defined whitish band from lower 

 margin of eye across operole connecting with one above base of pectorals; 

 scales 0*1 body marked like those on head; jaws pale; black spots more 

 prominent above lateral line, the white below pectorals; above 5 bluish- 

 white stripes following rows of scales, the one above lateral line most 

 prominent, the one under lateral line not distinct; between the band 

 above lateral line and the one above base of pectorals are 5 slightly 

 oblique dusky blotches, of which the third (from the head) is least distinct; 

 the last 4 extend on dorsal fin ; region around caudal fin brownish, the 

 spots less distinct; a small black humeral spot; 2 scales in front of dorsal 

 dark ; axil rather dark ; dorsal with 4 distinct darker mottled areas, the 

 first between fifth and seventh spines, the second between last spine 

 and third ray, the third at base of fifth and sixth rays, and the last at 

 eighth and ninth rays; upper part of soft dorsal with 2 or 3 rows of 

 brownish spots ; caudal brownish with 4 or 5 narrow, wavy, white vertical 

 bars, of which the last 2 are most prominent; anal with 3 darker areas, 

 its markings similar to those on dorsal; pectoral yellowish, spotted at 

 base and near tips of rays; ventrals faintly brownish and indistinctly 

 spotted with white. Known from a single specimen 5 inches in length, 

 taken by Dr. Charles L. Edwards at Green Turtle Cay, in the Bahamas. 

 (vnj>Gof3Xiri$, snowed upon, from the white spots.) 



Sparisoma niphobles, JORDAN <fc BOLLMAN, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1888, 551, Green Turtle 

 Cay, Bahamas (Coll. C. L. Edwards) ; JORDAN, Review Labroid Fishes, 677, 1890. 



