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Fig. 3. Epinnula magistralis (No. 13961). Drawn by senior author. 
than two thirds of length exposed and inner 
surface armed with 2 longitudinal series of 
minute spines (Fig. 2A3). 
Color in formalin uniformly bluish brown, 
not paler below; fins pale except for the 
blackish spinous dorsal; lining of buccal and 
branchial cavities black. 
REMARKS: Our six specimens agree fairly 
well with the figure and brief descriptions by 
Kamohara. In our specimens, however, the 
ventral origin lies slightly behind the middle 
of the pectoral, as in those of Kamohara; not 
behind the tip of the pectoral, as indicated in 
the original description and figure. We, there- 
fore, identify our fish with some doubt. 
Epinnula Poey 
Epinnula Poey (1854: 369—type E. magis- 
tralis Poey). 
Body rather stout, fusiform, and com- 
pressed; covered with minute imbricated 
scales. Several fangs, some depressible, on 
upper jaw near tip of snout. Vomer edentu- 
lous, but palatines with a series of small teeth. 
Lateral line bifurcating beneath anterior part 
of spinous dorsal. Dorsal fin inserted before 
upper angle of gill opening; dorsals barely 
connected; spines rather stout and inflexible. 
Ventrals I, 5. No hnlets. Tail not keeled. Gill 
raker at angle of first gill arch T-shaped, with 
inner surface smooth. Lining of buccal and 
branchial cavities pale, but peritoneum black. 
Epinnula magistralis Poey 
Figs. 3-4 
Epinnula magistralis Poey, 1854: 369, pL 32, 
figs. 3-4; Gunther, I860: 349; Goode and 
Bean, 1895: 198, pi. 57, fig. 211; Jordan 
and Evermann, 1896: 880; Kamohara, 
1938^: 48, pi. 3, fig. 3; 1938^: 20; 1940: 
93, fig. 43. 
MATERIAL DESCRIBED: No. 13961 (MatSU- 
bara’s Fish Collection), 188 mm. in standard 
length (242 mm. in total length), off Owase, 
Kumano-Nada, October 2, 1950. 
This species was originally described from 
a specimen obtained at Havana in September, 
1853. There has since been obtained a single 
specimen from the Caribbean Sea in 1885 
(Goode and Bean) and two from Japan (Tosa 
Bay and Kumano-Nada) in 1938 (Kamohara). 
Until recently, therefore, this fish has been 
supposed to be confined to the West Indies. 
The Japanese specimens, however, differ 
markedly from the descriptions of Atlantic 
fish in the length of the ventral fin and in 
certain numerical characters. 
D. XVI, I, 18; A. Ill, 16; P. 15; V. I, 5; 
Br. 7. Head 3.13 in body length; depth 3-91; 
width 9.35; distance from tip of snout to 
