Leiognathidae 
Leiegnathus splendens (Cuvier). 
Head 3 to 3 1/8; depth 1 3/5 to 1 4g; D. VIII, 15 
or 16; A. III, 14 or 15; tubes in lateral line 50 to 55 
to caudal base; snout 2 1/5 to 3 1/3 in head; eye 2 4/5 
to 3 1/5; maxillary 2 1/8 to 3; interorbital 2 3/5 to 
31/4. 
Body deeply rhomboid; upper profile with bulge more 
advanced. Uead width 1 3/4 to 14/5 its length. Snout . 
convex, length 4/5 to 7/8 its width, Eye elevated, hind 
pupil edge about midway in head length. Mouth slightly 
inferior, horizontal, jaws even, Teeth fine, simple, 
even, in single brush-like band in each jaw, Maxillary 
nearly vertical, to or slightly beyond front of eye, not 
to pupil; groove extends down vertically below, Nostrils 
together, hind one twice front one, close before upper 
eye front. Parietal ridges widely separated, entire, ap= 
proximate behind where median supraoccipital extends back 
on its process half way to spinous dorsal; interorbital 
widely concave between parietal ridges; above end: before- 
éyec2 bow spines each side, sometimes one or both bifid; 
supraocular ridge with row of very small fine serrae; lowe 
er preopercle sedge finely serrate, hind edge entire, Rakers 
6 18, lanceolate, about long as filaments, which are not 
quite half of eye. Shoulder-girdle inside gill-opening 
with 2 wide-set broad bony knobs. Scales caduceous, extend 
on chest and breast, nostriate; apical vertical circuli 20 
to 60 and basal convex circuli 16 to 45 (higher figures 
