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this black ring may or may not be surrounded by 
a thin light tan ring; there is a thin dark streak 
across the interorbital, and another that connects 
the eyes just in front of the interorbital; the 
front half of the cheek is dark brown, the rear 
half light tan with many very fine dark specks; 
the posterior fourth of the interopercle is dark 
brown as well as the other opercles; each side of 
the upper lip has a dark brown spot at the front 
and a dark brown oblong spot at the side; the 
entire side of the lower lip is brown as well as 
the area immediately below the lower lip; the 
spinous dorsal is dusky; soft dorsal with three 
lengthwise rows of dark spots, the upper row 
near the tips of the rays, the middle row on the 
membranes between the rays, and the lower 
row partly on the membrane and rays; caudal 
fin with dark spots on membranes between rays; 
each branched anal fin ray with a dark streak 
near its tip; anal fin with a lengthwise row of 
dark spots on membrane between rays, the last 
few anal rays may or may not have a second 
spot on the membrane; pectoral fin with a dark 
brown spot at its base; pelvic fin light yellow. 
RANGE: Bay of Bengal; Singapore; East In- 
dies; Cocos Islands; Philippines; Society Islands; 
Samoa Islands; Fiji Islands; Riu Kiu; Japan. 
Parapercis xanthozona ( Bleeker ) 
Figs. 1 H, 2 H, 9 E 
Percis xanthozona Bleeker, 1849, p. 55 (type 
locality, Indo -Australian Archipelago). 
Gunther, I860, p. 240 (Sea of Batavia). 
Bleeker, 1861, p. 56 (Singapore). Playfair 
and Gunther, 1866, p. 69 (Zanzibar). 
Weber, 1895, p. 267 (Thursday Island). 
Steindachner, 1900, p. 427 (Halmahera, 
Ternate) . 
Percis stricticeps De Vis, 1885, pp. 545-546 
( type locality, Southport ) . 
Percis piemostigma Sauvage, 1891, pp. 317- 
318 (Batavia, Maurice, Zanzibar). 
Parapercis atromaculata Fowler, 1904, pp. 
548-549, pi. 24 lower fig. (Pandang, Su- 
matra ) . 
Parapercis xanthozona Seale, 1906, p. 86 
(Shortland Islands, Solomons). Jordan and 
Seale, 1906, p. 4 14 (East Indies). Fowler, 
1928, p. 425 (Shortland Islands). McCul- 
loch, 1929, pp. 331-332 (Batavia, Queens- 
land). Beaufort and Chapman, 1951, pp. 
22-23 (Jacarta, Java, Madagascar, Indo- 
China, Philippines). Kamohara, 1950, pp. 
258 (Tosa and Kishu, Japan). 
Parapercis stricticeps McCulloch, 1913, p. 
386; 1929, pp. 331-332. 
Neopercis xanthozona Kamohara, 1938, p. 
1452. Matsubara, 1955, p. 691. Kamohara, 
1958, p. 67. 
SPECIMENS STUDIED: 19 (121 to 195) Pa- 
dang, Sumatra ANSP 27780 (1), holotype of 
Parapercis atromaculata Fowler; nhmw 60759 
(1); Fiji Islands: CNHM 24866-7 (1); Sulu, 
Philippine Islands CNHM 47548 (1); Gulf of 
Siam USNM 109818 (2); Shortland Islands 
bpbm 1225 (1); Singapore rvnh 16366 (1); 
Amboina NHMW 60263 (1); Queensland AM 
111527 (1); East Indies rvnh 5946 (8), 8538 
( 1 ). 
DIAGNOSIS: Six canine teeth in outer row of 
lower jaw; palatine teeth absent; middle dorsal 
spines longest; membrane from spinous dorsal 
connected to first soft ray opposite tip of last 
spine; dorsal spines y five; dorsal rays y 21; 
total anal rays y 18; caudal vertebrae y 19. 
color IN ALCOHOL: Background and belly 
light tan; upper scales on back margined with 
brown; below these darker scales, from the base 
of the pectoral fin to the base of the caudal fin 
occurs a light tan lengthwise band; below this 
band occur nine dark vertical bars; 8 to 10 dark 
spots on head behind the eyes; soft dorsal fin 
with three lengthwise rows of dark spots on 
membranes, lower row at base of fin; on middle 
of anal fin one row of spots; caudal fin with 
dark spots on membranes between rays; seven 
transverse dark bars extend across cheek and 
opercles on some specimens, no color markings 
on pelvic or pectoral fins. 
RANGE: Zanzibar; Madagascar; Singapore; 
Gulf of Siam; Philippines; East Indies; Thurs- 
day Island; Queensland; Solomons; Japan. 
REFERENCES 
Alcock, A. 1896. Supplementary list of Indian 
fishes. Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 65:316. 
Aoyagi, H. 1954. Studies of the coral fishes of 
the Riu-Kiu Islands, VIII. Gobiesocidae, Lim- 
