FISHES OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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LIST OF SPECIES OF FISHES DESCRIBED AS NEW FROM THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
In the present report on the fishes of the Hawaiian Islands we have included 
not only the Hawaiian Islands proper, but Laysan and the other small islands known 
as the Leeward Islands, which extend some 800 miles northwestward from the main 
group; we also include Johnston Island, lying about the same distance southwest 
from Hawaii. The region thus limited constitutes a definite faunistic unit, the 
species being largely distinct from those of the South Seas. 
Following is a list in chronologic order of all the nominal species of fishes that have 
been described from the Hawaiian Islands. In this tabular statement are given 
(1) the name under which each species was described and the authority for it, (2) the 
present identification, (3) the type locality, and (I) the year when the description was 
published. Names not now tenable are in italics. From this table it appears that 
a total of 355 species have been described from Hawaiian type localities. Of this 
number 78 are now regarded as synonyms, which leaves 277 tenable species orig- 
inally described from the Hawaiian Islands. Adding to these 168 species known 
to occur at those islands, but originally described from elsewhere, a total of 147 
species is obtained, constituting the known fish-fauna of that group, exclusive of the 
deep-sea fishes described by Doctor Gilbert in Section n of this work. 
Nominal species. 
Chsetodon longirostris Broussonet 
Salarias gibbifrons Quoy & Gaimard 
Tetraodon lacrymatus Quoy & Gaimard 
Balistes sandwichensis Quoy & Gaimard 
Chaetodon miliaris Quoy & Gaimard 
Xyrichthys lecluse Quoy & Gaimard 
Clieilinus sinuosus Quoy & Gaimard 
Julis gaimard Quoy & Gaimard 
Julis duperrey Quoy & Gaimard 
Anampses cuvier Quoy & Gaimard 
Gomphosus tricolor Quoy & Gaimard 
Gomphosus pectoralis Quoy & Gaimard 
Julis geoffroy Quoy & Gaimard 
Julis balteatus Quoy & Gaimard 
Julis axillaris Quoy & Gaimard 
Mullus multifasciatus Quoy & Gaimard 
Saurus variegatus Quoy & Gaimard 
Saurus gracilis Quoy & Gaimard 
Chmtodon lunulatus Quoy & Gaimard 
Balistes angulosus Quoy "& Gaimard 
Glyphisodou abdominalis Quoy & Gaimard 
Pomacentrus nigricans Quoy & Gaimard 
Acanthurus flavescens Bennett 
Acanthurus strigosus Bennett 
Blennius marmoratus Bennett 
Blennius sordidus Bennett 
Cirrhites/asci'afws Bennett 
Scarus dubius Bennett 
Scorpmna asperella Bennett 
Serranus mi piaster Cuvier & Valenciennes 
Cirrhites maculosus Bennett 
Julis fiavovittatus Bennett 
Julis greenovii Bennett 
Chaetodon fremblii Bennett 
Chsetodon ornatus Gray 
Chsetodon quadrimaculatus Gray 
Holocanthus arcuatus Gray 1 
Acanthurus nigroris Cuvier & Valenciennes 
Callyodon sandvicensis Cuvier & Valenciennes 
Xyrichthys pavoninus Cuvier & Valenciennes . 
Scarus bennetti Cuvier & Valenciennes 
Julis eydouxii Cuvier & Valenciennes 
Scarus formosus Cuvier & Valenciennes 
Xyrichthys microlepidotus Cuvier & Valenci- 
ennes. 
described as new from the Hawaiian Islands. 
Present identification. 
Type locality. 
Year. 
1782 
do 
1824 
do 
1824 
do 
1824 
do 
1824 
1824 
1824 
do 
1824 
do 
1824 
1824 
do 
1824 
1824 
do 
1824 
1824 
1824 
1824 
1824 
1824 
do 
1824 
do 
1824 
do 
1824 
do 
1824 
1828 
1828 
1828 
1828 
Oahu 
1828 
1828 
1828 
do 
1828 
do 
1829 
do 
1829 
do 
1829 
do 
1829 
...do ... 
1831 
1831 
1831 
do 
1835 
l.s:w 
1839 
do 
1839 
do 
1839 
1839 
Cymolutes lecluse 
Owhyee (Hawaii) 
1839 
