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THE CORAL TRIANGLE: HEARST BIODIVERSITY EXPEDITION 
Holocentridae (Squirrelfishes) 
Myripristis hexagona (Lacepede, 1802) (Fig. 83) 
Material.— CAS 235467 (127 mm SL, DC-1396); HEPD-012.5, hook and line in 40 m. 
Remarks. — Widespread in Indo-West Pacific. 
Ostichthys cf. japonicus (Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1829) (Fig. 84) 
Material.— CAS 235783 (69 mm SL, DC-1478); HEPD-022, otter trawl in 115-144 m. 
Remarks. — This HEPD specimen agrees fairly closely with O. japonicus as described by Nakabo (2000: 
494) and Randall and Greenfield {in Carpenter and Niem, 1999: 2247) except for the narrower suborbital 
(height about 1/4 of orbit diameter vs. l^), slightly lower gill-raker count, and the last D spine not substan¬ 
tially longer than the penultimate spine. The upper jaw also falls well short of a vertical tlirough die hind 
margin of the orbit, as opposed to well beyond that vertical. The gill-raker counts for the HEPD specimen 
included only developed rakers and not the one or two rudiments in each limb of die arch. Perhaps these 
differences may be a result of the small size of die HEPD specimen. Nakabo (2000) gives the following 
counts: D XIIJ2-14; A IV,10-12; P 16-17; LL 28-30; GR 7-10+12-14. O. japonicus is widespread in the 
western Pacific, from Japan to Australia and west to the Andaman Sea. 
Macrurocyttidae (Armoreye dories) 
Zenion hololepis Goode and Bean, 1896 (Fig. 85) 
Material.— CAS 235741 (41.3 mm SL); HEPD-006, otter trawl in 454^57 m. CAS 235737 (2, 48.8^9.6 
mm SL, DC-1431, -1436); HEPD-017, beam trawl in 282-428 m. 
Remarks. — A widespread species in slope waters of most tropical and subtropical seas. 
Caproidae (Boarfishes) 
Antigonia capros Lowe, 1843 
Material.— CAS 235578 (52.3 mm SL, DC-1552); HEPD-032, beam trawl in 223-369 m. 
Remarks.— A broadly distributed species in tropical to subtropical waters. 
Antigonia rubicunda Ogilby, 1910 (Fig. 86) 
Material.— CAS 235575 (25.3 mm SL); HEPD-022, otter trawl in 115-144 m. CAS 235579 (98.5 mm SL); 
HEPD-032, beam trawl in 223-369 m. 
Remarks.— The lower counts on these specimens, compared to those of A. capros, could place them in 
A. malayana. 
Fistulariidae (Cornetfishes) 
Fistularia petimba Lacepede, 1803 (Fig. 87) 
Material.— CAS 236412 (639 mm TL, DC-1479); HEPD-022, otter trawl in 115-144 m. 
Remarks.— This species is almost circumglobal in distribution, ranging on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean 
into the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean to the Hawaiian Islands. It is not found in the eastern Pacif¬ 
ic. 
SCORPAENIDAE (SCORPIONFISHES, ROCKFISHES) 
Ebosia bleekeri (Doderlein, in Steindachner and Doderlein, 1884) (Fig. 88) 
Material.— CAS 235824 (2, 57-96 mm SL, DC-1487, DC-1477); HEPD-022, otter trawl in 115-144 m. 
Remarks.— The high bony crest over the orbits in males of this species is unique in the family. The two 
HEPD specimens and one collected off Camarines Sur in southeastern Luzon (CAS 41610) are the first 
records of the species Eom die Philippines. A thii*d uiuecorded specimen (CAS 64871) comes from off 
Vietnam in the South China Sea. The species is otherwise known from soutliem Japan, Taiwan, Hong 
Kong, and Indonesia. 
