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Genus 152. MACROPHARYNGODON Bleeker. 
This genus is allied to Halichccres, differing in the deeper body and in the presence of but few 
large pharyngeal teeth. Coloration very brilliant and varied. Coral reefs of the Tropics. 
Macropharyngodon Bleeker, Consp. Gen. Labroids, in Versl. Kon. Ak. Wet., XIII, 1862, 100, 289 (Julis geoffroyi); Bleeker, 
Atlas, I, 129, 1802. 
226. Macropharyngodon geoffroy (Quoy & Gaimard). “Hmnlca aki-lolo.” Fig. 124. 
Head 3.1 in length; depth 2.6; eye 4.6 in head; snout 3.1; preorbital 4.75; interorbital 4; D. i\, 
11; A. in, 11; scales 3-28-10. 
Body short, deep and compressed; head short and blunt; snout short, conic; mouth small, hori- 
zontal, 4 front teeth in each jaw strong, the second on each side of upper jaw turned backward; a prom- 
inent posterior canine on upper jaw near the angle, this sometimes duplicated; caudal peduncle deep, 
2 in head; eye small, wholly above axis of body; interorbital space rounded; opercular flap rather long 
and rounded; fins well developed; origin of dorsal anterior to upper end of gill-opening, its distance 
from tip of snout equal to length of head; dorsal spines soft and flexible, their length about 2.5 in head, 
rays about equally high, outline of fin gently rounded; anal rounded, its origin under base of second 
or third dorsal ray, its height equaling that of soft dorsal; caudal truncate or very slightly rounded; 
outer rays of ventrals produced, reaching origin of anal, their length 1.4 in head; pectoral broad, the 
upper rays somewhat lengthened, equal to length of ventrals; scales large and firm, the surfaces finely 
striate; head entirely naked ; nape naked; scales of breast scarcely reduced ; lateral line following curve 
of hack curving downward 3 rows of scales under last dorsal ray and continuing on 4 scales to base of 
caudal, the tubes with 2 or 3 branches. 
Color in life, olive, with broad stripes along the rows of scales, these made up of a large, bright 
steel-blue spot on each scale and a black bar behind it, the spots smaller, closer, and brighter on breast; 
head with many curved blue stripes, throat with similar ones; first 3 dorsal spines tipped with- golden, 
rest of dorsal, anal, caudal and ventrals golden olive with bluish-black edged ocelli; a narrow black 
edge on dorsal, anal, and caudal, followed by a still narrower whitish one; pectoral light orange, its 
base deep bluish. 
Color in alcohol, grayish brown, side of body with about 10 irregular pale stripes separated by 
darker ones; cheek and opercles with narrow wavy brownish or bluish lines; breast and belly with 
