Si USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 



Dafa. Srnms cypho Seale. 



A parrot-fish; large sealet* and parrot-like beak; e<*lor deep greeu- 

 blue. 

 Daiigrlon, or Danglun. Oslracion pimctalits Bloch. 



A trunk-fish; body without ribs, inclosed by a hard carapax com- 

 posed of hexagonal plates; 2 horns in front and 2 in rear; black 

 speckled with white. 



Fanihen-tasi ("sea-bat"). Stoasodon narinari (Euphr.). 



An eagle-ray, with pectoral fins developed like two broad wings, 

 and a long flexible tail armed with a serrated spine. Color of upper 

 surface blue spotted with white. 



Fomho, or Fongho. .lfrurfe?(fu/spp. "Coral-fishes." 



Small and flat, resembling a sun-fish, usually with a dark transverse 

 band on after part of the body near the tail. Ah)id<.hhif dicJiii 

 (Lienard) is livid pink with a black hand on the posterior third of 

 the body: caudal and pectoral fins yellowish white, dusky at the tip; 

 i-emaining fins dusky. A^»ideldvf amhoiinnsi-s (Bleeker) has the 

 caudal tin deeply forked with the lobes much produced; color brown- 

 ish, lighter below; fins all washed with bluish except pectorals, which 

 are white: deep brown spot at base and in axils of pectoi^als. 

 Gadao. Epimpluhis hcragonaius (Bloch). 



A ■ ' grouper " with leopard-like spots. Cabrilla (Spanish). 



Gadu. ClieiUnus trilobatus Lacepede. 



Greenish mth red stripes and dots on the head, 3 oblique lines from 

 eye down sides of snout; each scale with red vertical lines; vertical 

 fins green with light margins; ventrals green; pectorals yellow. Allied 

 to the "poou" of Hawaii {C. hexagonatus Giinth.). 



Gadudog. Amphiprion spp. 



Aiiiphijyrioii iicinctus Riippell, has a cinnamon and black body with 

 •2 transverse bluish bands, 1 on cheek, and 1 on abdomen; the fir«t band 

 of equal width with the eye and extending over the neck vertically 

 down to the lower edge of the opercle; the other band extending down 

 from the dorsal fin to the anal opening; caudal fin emarginate, upper 

 lobe produced; color tawny. Amphiprion ephipphnn Bloch, is brown- 

 ish black, lighter in front, with a blue band one and one-half times as 

 wide as eye, extending from neck to eye, and down along the opercle 

 and preopercle, ending in an acute angle on the subopercle; ventral 

 and anal fins black; pectorals, caudal peduncle, and fin yellow. 



Gahga, or Gajga (Spanish orthog.). Parexocotlus koA Cypselunts. Flying-fisji. 



Guagxias, or Aguas. Miiffil planiceps Cuv. & \a\. Ciray mullet. 



Color silvery with wash of yellow on body. Good food fish. 



Hagrman. See Agmau. Muraena spp. 



