DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF FISHES FROM THE 
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
By DAVID STARR JORDAN and BARTON WARREN EVERMANN. 
During the investigations of the aquatic resources of the Hawaiian Islands carried 
on by us in 1901 under the direction of the Hon. George M. Bowers, United States 
Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, very large collections of the fishes and other 
animals occurring in the waters of those islands were made. 
A detailed report, covering the entire aquatic fauna of that group of islands, is 
now in preparation, which, it is hoped, will be ready for publication within the year. 
Among the fishes collected are many species which appear to be new. Descrip- 
tions of 57 of these are given in the present paper. Illustrations of these new 
species, together with more extended notes regarding their abundance, distribution, 
habits, and commercial value, will be given in the general report to follow. 
The types of all the new species have been deposited in the United States National 
Museum, and, when possible, one or more cotypes have been donated to each of the 
following museums and institutions: Museum of Leland Stanford Junior University 
(L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus.), U. S. National Museum (U. S. N. M.), Reserve series of the 
U. S. Fish Commission (U. S. F. C.), Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, 
Mass. (M. C. Z.), American Museum of Natural History, New York City (Am. Mus. 
Nat. Hist.), Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila.), 
University of Indiana (Mus. Ind. Univ.), Field Columbian Museum, Chicago (Field 
Col. Mus.), California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco (Cal. Ac. Sci.), and the 
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum at Honolulu (Bishop Mus.). When possible, we have 
given in this paper the numbers which the types and cotypes bear on the records of 
the various museums to which they have been assigned. 
The majority of specimens here described were obtained by us in the market or 
directly from the fishermen at Honolulu, Oahu Island. Others were obtained in the 
market or from the fishermen at Hilo, island of Hawaii; others at Kailua, island 
of Hawaii; others on the reef at Waikiki, near Honolulu, and one at Heeia, Oahu 
Island. 
Family CARCHARIIDA. The Sand Sharks. 
1. Carclxarias phorcys Jordan & Evermann, new species. 
Head 4.8 in length; depth 6.5; width of head 1.75 in its length; depth of head 1.8; snout about 
2.2 in head; interorbital space 2.2; space between tip of snout and front of mouth 2.5; width of 
mouth 2.5; eye 6 in interorbital space; internasal space 1.8; least depth of caudal peduncle a little 
’over 4.8; caudal 3.5 in body; pectoral 5.75. 
Body elongate, rather robust, the tail compressed; head elongate, somewhat narrow and 
depressed; snout long and narrowly pointed when viewed above, the tip rounded; eyes small, their 
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