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length in fish about 135 mm (5.5 inches) long, when it reaches to or sometimes beyond 
the base of the first soft ray of the dorsal, and thereafter it again becomes propor- 
tionately shorter. In a specimen 262 mm (10.5 inches) long it reaches only to the 
middle of the sixth spine if deflexed. The filament on the first soft ray of the ventral 
also persists in big fish, wherein it reaches to the origin of the anal. 
Figure 29 . — Chaetodipterus faber. From a specimen 50 rnni long. 
The preserved specimens vary greatly in color, ranging from pale silvery to 
dark brown. Although the species is described as having four to six black bars, all 
the mature individuals at hand have five, except one old one (262 mm long) which 
has none. The caudal and pectorals are translucent except in fish upward of 110 mm 
in length wherein they are brownish. The ventrals remain black or at least dark 
throughout life. 
