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Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: United States National Museum Smithsonian Institution United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, (etc.) for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt Print. Off.
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d, spinous fins greatlylower. Dorsal spines 10, rays 16 or 17. Anal spines 3, rays 9 to 11. Large, brilliant sparoids of the Western Pacific, with soft dorsaland anal rays produced. ANALYSIS OF SPECIES o^ White transverse collar at nape; black saddle on upper surface of caudalpeduncle spilurus. «2. No white transverse collar at nape; no black saddle on upper surface of caudalpeduncle — forsteri. SYMPHORUS SPILURUS Giinther Figure 7 Symphorus spilurns Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 2-3, pts. 5-6, p. 61,1874 (type locality: Pelew Islands). (Typographical error.) Symphorus spilurus Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 2-3, pts. 5-6, pi. 67,1874.—ScHMELTZ, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 6, p. 12, 1877 (Pelew Islands).—Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 220, 1928 (copied); Proc. Acad.Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929 (1930), p. 610 (Hong Kong).—Duncker andMoHR, Mitteil. Zool. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 44, p. 62, 1931 (Tauwi, AdmiraltyIslands). 66 BULLETIN 100. UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
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FIGURE :.-Symphorus spilurus Qunther. Three figures of variation FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE SEAS AND ADJACENT WATERS 67 Depth 2% to 2K; head 2ji to 3%, width 2 to 2%. Snout 2% to 2Kinhead from snout tip; eye 4% to 5, 1% to 2 in snout, 1% to 1% in interor-bital; maxillary reaches opposite % to K in eye, expansion 1)^ to 2% ineye, length 2% to 2% in head from snout tip; teeth small, short, as rowof submolars above and about 3 rows of smaller ones in mandible, alsofront of each jaw with outer row of short conic canines, slightly moreprominent than other teeth; interorbital 2% to 4%, convex; preoperclewith very minute, obsolete denticles. Gill rakers 5 + 15, shorttubercleUke points, 1% in gill filaments. Scales 50 to 56 in lateral line along and above course to caudalbase and 5 or 6 more on latter; tubes 50 or 51 in lateral line to caudalbase and 5 to 9 more on latter; 10 to 12 above, 18 to 23 below, 17 to20 predorsal to occiput, 8 to 11 on cheek to preopercle edge, flangenaked. Suprascapul

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