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27. ABUDEFDUF CORNEYI Jordan and Dickerson, new species. 
Head 34 in length to base of caudal; depth 24; eye 34 in head, 14 
in snout. D. XIL, 15; A. 11, 12. Scales 3-28-11, lateral line 
pores 20. 
Body compressed; interorbital space somewhat arched; preorbital 
two-thirds diameter of eye; maxillary not reaching vertical from 
front of orbit; cheeks and opercle scaled, snout unscaled; margins 
of suborbital, preopercle, and opercle entire, a single flat spine on the 
opercle. ‘Teeth compressed, entire, in a single row. 
Dorsal spines subequal, first and twelfth shortest, fifth to seventh 
longest; spinous dorsal covered one-half its length with large scales, 
soft dorsal and anal scaled similarly but scales minute; pectorals and 
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ventrals equal (three-fourths head), the ventrals scarcely reaching 
vent; caudal forked, its lobes rounded and the upper lobe the longer. 
Color in alcohol deep blackish brown with a conspicuous, though 
small, black axillary spot; snout black; fins black except the pec- 
torals, which are merely dusky, and the ends of soft dorsal and upper 
lobe of caudal, which are not pigmented. 
This species differs markedly from all the descriptions accessible to 
us. Glyphidodon limbatus from Ile de France, scantily described by 
Cuvier and Valenciennes, may be the same, but the ventral is said to 
reach the middle of the second anal spine and no mention is made of 
the conspicuous axillary spot. Furthermore, Sauvage claims that 
G. limbatus is really from St. Helena, and that it belongs to the group 
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