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U.S.N.M. no 57948. Zamboanga. August 21, 1906. Dr. E. Meams. 
Length 85 mm. As Tylosurus leiurus. With large black cutaneus flap on 
the under surface of the mandible and the long black posterior dorsal 
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rays reach 4 in caudal fin. 
U.S.N.M. no. 72167. Iloilo. R« C. McGregor. Length 199 mm. 
As Tylosurus giganteus, 
U.S.N.M. no. 83421. Fiji. Wilkes Exploring Expedition. Length 
738 mm (caudal tips damaged). Type of Strongylura fijiense. 
A.N.S.P., no. 29639. Mani, Hawaiian Islands. R. C. MacGregor. 
Stanford University. 
S trongylura app endiculata (Klunzinger) 
Belone appendiculatus KLUNZINGER, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, 
vol. 21 , p. 580, 1871 (type locality: Red Sea). 
Be lone appendiculata GtJNTHER, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 8 , pt. 
16, p. 351, fig. (head), 1909 (Muscat; Solomons). 
Thalassosteus appendiculatus JORDAN, EVERMANN, TANAKA, Proc. Calif. 
Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vol. 16, p. 651, Nov. 14, 1927 (Honolulu). 
Strongylura appendiculata FOWLER, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 
74, 1928 (compiled). 
Depth 17 to 19, body moderately compressed, subcylindrical tail 
little higher than wide; head 3^. Snout 5^ to 6 in head; eye 0% to 9, some¬ 
what large; behind tip of lower jaw low compressed bony keel l/3 eye depth 
or less; teeth moderately strong, rough area of jaw edges moderately wide; 
tongue smooth. Gill opening extends below front eye edge. 
