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TABLE 1 
Certain Counts in "Pseudogrammids” 
SPECIES 
SOURCE 
DORSAL 
ANAL 
PECTORAL 
SCALES 
GILL 
RAKERS 1 
Aporops 
bilinearis. ....... ...... 
Schultz, 1953 
VII, 23-24 
III, 19-21 
16-18 
ca 59-71 
16-18 
alfreei ..... ............. 
Smith, 1953 
VI-VII, 23-24 
III, 21 
15 
80 
X 
japonicus 
Kamohara, 1957 
VII, 21 
III, 16 
X 
ca 60 
13 
Rbegma 
thaumasium . ........ 
Kanazawa, 1952 
VII-VIII, 20-24 
III, 16-19 
16-18 
47-52 
14-17 
gregoryi.... 
Breder, 1927 
VII, 15 
III, 12 
X 
48 
X 
bermudensis 
Kanazawa, 1952 
VII-VIII, 19 
III, 16 
14 
40-42 
15 
Pseudogramma 
polyacantha 
Schultz, 1953 
VII-VIII, 15-18 
-HI, 15-18 
17-18 
ca 50-54 
17-18 
guineensis. 
Norman, 1935 
VII, 20 
III, 16-17 
X 
48? 
X 
hrederi.. ....... ........ 
Longley and 
Hildebrand, 1940 
VII, 21 
III, 17 
14 
50 
X 
Suttonia 
suttoni 
Smith, 1953 
VII, 23-24 
III, 19 
16 
60 
15 
Uneata 
Holotype 
VI,- 
III, - 
16 
64 
— 
Paratypes 
VII, 23-24 
III, 20-22 
16 
58-61 
16 
1 Including rudiments. 
the soft dorsal and anal rays are not only covered 
with skin and scales, but the basal portion of 
the rays becomes embedded in a heavy layer of 
fatty tissue. As a result the counts for these fins 
are based on only three paratypes, one in which 
the fins have been dissected (given first), and 
the two smallest: soft dorsal rays, 23, 23, 24; 
soft anal rays, 20, 21, 22. In the paratype dis- 
sected for the fin counts there are 5 gill raker 
rudiments above, 1 at the angle, and 10 rakers 
and rudiments below. Other counts are given in 
Table 1. 
There seems no reason to give a long descrip- 
tion of Suttonia Uneata, for most of Smiths 
(1953) account of S. suttoni applies equally 
well to S. lineata . In one paratype there are two 
short, muscular caeca on either side of the 
pyloric end of the stomach. The pore configura- 
tion of the head is that of Pseudogramma rather 
than Aporops , i.e.,- there are two slitlike pores 
in the interorbital. There is also an especially 
large pore, larger than in either Pseudogramma 
or Aporops , at the very base of the free preoper- 
cular border. The preopercular spine is elongate, 
downwardly curved, and has a deep, sharply de- 
marcated, central gutter filled with glandular 
tissue. There are no externally visible spines on 
the operculum, and the opercle itself has almost 
exactly the shape of that in Pseudogramma (Fig. 
5 ) . The teeth are about as described in Suttonia 
suttoni and almost exactly duplicate the denti- 
tion of Pseudogramma polyacantha. The nasal 
organ is also like that of Pseudogramma (Fig. 
2b). As Smith (1953) has already noted, the 
scales on the top of the head stop short of the 
interorbital and the interorbital pores in Sut- 
tonia; in Pseudogramma the squamation extends 
forward nearly to the front borders of the eyes 
and surrounds the interorbital pores. 
The most obvious differences between Sut- 
tonia suttoni and S. lineata lie in coloration. A 
color description of the latter species made after 
the specimens had been a week in formaldehyde 
is as follows: "Body reddish gray; dorsal, anal 
and caudal with a narrow white border. Lower 
half of head (below a rather abrupt transition 
zone running through the lower border of eye), 
pectorals and pelvics reddish. Upper half of head 
darker, except for a prominent light red mid- 
dorsal band running from the dorsal origin to 
the tip of snout, this band most prominent for- 
ward/’ When first taken, the specimens had an 
