. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. FAMILY CLINIDAE—SCHULTZ 285 KEY TO THE SPECIES OF TRIPTERYGION OF THE MARSHALL AND MARIANAS ISLANDS la. Head and pectoral fin base without scales, breast naked. 2a. Pores in anterodorsal lateral line 16 to 19, with 16 to 19 notched scales in posterior lateral line; one small cirrus on each eye. T. heminaelas Kner and Steindachner 2b. Pores in anterodorsal lateral line 11 to 14, with about 19 to 21 notched scales in posterior lateral line. 3a. Pectoral fin with 3 or 4 small brownish pigment spots; males with lower parts of head dark and dark
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. FAMILY CLINIDAE—SCHULTZ 285 KEY TO THE SPECIES OF TRIPTERYGION OF THE MARSHALL AND MARIANAS ISLANDS la. Head and pectoral fin base without scales, breast naked. 2a. Pores in anterodorsal lateral line 16 to 19, with 16 to 19 notched scales in posterior lateral line; one small cirrus on each eye. T. heminaelas Kner and Steindachner 2b. Pores in anterodorsal lateral line 11 to 14, with about 19 to 21 notched scales in posterior lateral line. 3a. Pectoral fin with 3 or 4 small brownish pigment spots; males with lower parts of head dark and dark pigment cells generally behind head on body and on pectoral fins T. minutus Gunther 3b. Pectoral fin without pigment spots; males with lower parts of head blackish, but body behind pelvics is unpigmented; females unpig- mented '^- nanus, new species 16. Scales on preopercle, cpercle, pectoral fin base, and on area of abdomen in front of anus; dorsal rays IV-XIV-9; anal 11,19; pores in anterior lateral line 14 + 22 in posterior one; 8 scales in a zigzag row around caudal peduncle; a broad orbital tentacle on each eye. T. brachylepis, new species. Figure 109.— Tripterygion hemimelas Kner and Steindachner, female, USNM 50719, after Jordan and Scale. TRIPTERYGION HEMIMELAS Kner and Steindachner Figure 109 Tripterygium hemimelas Kner and Steindachner, Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 54, pt. 1, p. 371, 1866 (type locality, Samoan Islands). Enneaptcrygms cerasinus Jordan and Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 25 (1905), p. 419, fig. 100, 1906 (type locality, Apia, Samoa; USNM 51802, a female). Tripterigion atriceps Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22 (1902), p. 505, fig. 46, 1903 (type locality, Honolulu; holotype USNM 50719, a male, and par- atypes USNM 51165 and 126693). Enneapterygius fuligicauda Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 98, p. 188, fig. 52, 1946 (male; Riu Kiu Islands; ANSP 72062-64, types studied). Enneapterygius macrobrachium Fowler, Proc. Acad.
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