FISHES OF HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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Epincphelus fuscogv.Uatux, Fowler, Proe. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, 502 (Honolulu); not of Forskal. 
Epinephrtus qucrnus Seale, Occasional Papers, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Vol. I, No. 4, 1901, 3, with plate, Honolulu 
(Type, No. 481, B. I’. B. M., Coll. A. Seale); Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept, 23, 1903), 449 (Hono- 
lulu); Snyder, op. cit. (Jan. 19, 19041, 527 (Honolulu). 
Genus 127. ODONTANTHIAS Bleeker. 
Body strongly compressed; scales rather large, ciliated, smooth; lateral line complete, the tubes 
straight and extending along nearly the entire scale; mouth rather large, protractile; maxillary 
exposed; jaws with villiform teeth and curved canines; large, elongate patches of teeth on vomer, 
palatines, and tongue; head scaly, including the maxillary; preopercle serrated, without antrorse teeth 
on the lower border; opercle with 3 spines; gill-membranes separate; 7 branchiostegals; pseudo- 
branchife present; gillrakers very long and slender; a single dorsal fin with x, 13 rays, the spinous 
portion a little longer than the soft; anal short, with iii, 7 rays; caudal emarginate; pectoral obtuse- 
pointed, subsymmetrical, rays 17; ventrals below pectorals, close together, each with a strong spine. 
Odontanthias Bleeker, Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk., IV, 1872, 235 (Anthias borbonius) . 
173. Odontanthias fuscipinnis (Jenkins). Plate XY and fig. 91. 
Depth 2.5 in length; head 2.8; D. x, 17; A. in, 7; scales, 4-47-15; P. 1.31 in head; V. about 
equal to head; eye 4 in head; interorbital slightly wider than eye; maxillary reaching to below middle 
of eye; narrowest part of preorbital a little less than 2 in eye; branchiostegals 7; gillrakers on lower 
arm of first branchial arch 34. 
Mouth very oblique, lower jaw somewhat projecting, just entering profile; upper profile of head 
reentrant before the nostrils, thence to nape steep and almost straight, in one specimen rather promi- 
nently convex before the eyes; strongly bulging at nape in front of dorsal spines; profile of back straight 
from front of first dorsal to anterior rays of soft dorsal, from here descending to caudal peduncle, the 
upper edge of which is on a level with tip of snout; ventral profile less convex and less angular than 
upper; opercle with 2 flat spines, the upper the larger; lower part of edge of opercle serrated; angle 
F.O.B. 1903—15 
