3194: .Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



Page 2400. Before Ophioblennius, Gill, insert : 



893 (a). CORALLIOZETUS, Everniann & Marsh. 



Coralliozetus, EVERMANN &, MARSH, Kept. TJ. S. Fish Com. 1899 (Dec. 19, 1899), 362 (cardonce). 



Body slender and strongly compressed, without scales; head large, sub- 

 cylindrical, bluntly pointed; mouth large; teeth not hooked, about 8 

 enlarged conical ones in front of each jaw, smaller ones behind; vomer 

 with teeth; dorsal fin with a notch between the rays and spines, the 

 membrane connected with caudal; caudal fin rounded; pectoral large, 

 ventrals small and inserted slightly in advance of pectorals. A strongly 

 marked genus, conspicuous in appearance by its heavy head and thin 

 body, probably related to Opliioblennim, from which it is technically sepa- 

 rated by the absence of hooked canine teeth, the convex caudal, and the 

 entire absence of a lateral line. 



(KopaXX-iov, coral; t^rsca, I seek.) 



2753 (a). CORALLIOZETUS CARDOX^E, Evermaim <fc Marsh. 



Head 4; depth 5.6; eye 5; snout 4; maxillary 2; D. XVII, 11; A. 21; 

 pectoral 1.3; ventral 1.8; caudal 1.4. 



Body scaleless, slender, much compressed; head large and heavy, not 

 compressed nor depressed ; snout very short and blunt; mouth large, hori- 

 zontal, low in position, the maxillary reaching far beyond the eye; eyes 

 small, close together, placed high and well forward; teeth conical, in a 

 patch on the front of each jaw, an outer row of about 8 teeth (4 on a side) 

 in each jaw, much enlarged ; a single row of smaller teeth on sides of each 

 jaw; teeth on voiner; a small flap at the nostril and two short filaments 

 above eye, one much the smaller; no appendages at the nape. Dorsal fin 

 long and high, of slender, flexible spines, and longer soft rays, a notch 

 between the soft and spinous portions; anal longer and lower than soft 

 dorsal ; anal and dorsal free from caudal ; caudal rounded ; pectoral large, 

 wide as body, reaching anal or beyond; ventral small, inserted before 

 pectoral, of 3 rays, the innermost very slender. 



Color in spirits : Body dark red, much paler in one specimen ; head every- 

 where inky, this color dusted upon the body, particularly on the anterior 

 portion ; a pale gray bar downward and backward across cheek; fins pale, 

 except ventrals and front of dorsal, which have color of head; a row of 

 small rosy spots along bases of anal rays, seemingly in the flesh ; some- 

 times a similar fainter row along base of dorsal. Known only from Puerto 

 Rico, where 3 specimens, each about 1 inch long, were obtained in Febru- 

 ary, 1899, by the'U. S. Fish Commission expedition to that island. 



(Named for Cardona, a little islet off Playa de Ponce, on the reef of 

 which the type was collected.) 



Coralliozetus cardonce, EVERMANN & MARSH, Kept. U. S. Fish Com. 1899 (Dec. 19, 1899), 

 362, Cardona Islet, P. R. (Type, No. 49377, TJ.S.N.M. Coll. Evermann & Marsh.) 



