84 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 



Dafa. Scarus cypho Seale. 



A parrot- fish; large scales and parrot-like beak; c<*lor deep green- 

 blue. 

 Danglon, or Danglun. Ostracion punctatus 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. 

 Fdmlio, or Fdngho. Abudelduf spp. '"' Coral-fishes. " 



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

 band on after part of the bod}^ near the tail. Abudelduf dlchii 

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

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

 remaining fins dusky. Abudelduf amboinensis (Bleeker) has the 

 caudal fin 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 pectorals. 



Gadao. Epinephelus hexagonatus (Bloch). 



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



Gadu. Cheilinus trilobatus Lacepede. 



Greenish with 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 "poon" of Hawaii (C hexagonatus Giinth.). 



Gadudog. Amphiprign spp. 



Am/phijprion bicinctus Riippell, has a cinnamon and black bod}^ with 

 2 transverse bluish bands, 1 on cheek, and 1 on abdomen; the first 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 ephippium Bloch, is brown- 

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

 wide as eve, extending from neck to e} T e, 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. ). Parexocoetus and Cypselurus. Flying-fish, 



Guaguas, or Aguas. Mugil planieeps Cuv. & Val. Gray mullet. 



Color silvery with wash of 3 7 ellow on bod}\ Good food fish. 



Hagman. See Agman. Muraena spp. 



