. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 96 BULLETIN" 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM tal; maxillary reaches y^ in eye in young to front eye edge with age, expansion ly^ to 1% in eye, length 21/^ to 21/^ in head; teeth in villi- form band above, in front with pair of wide set canines, below teeth small, conic and uniserial, also 4 to 6 outer similar ones anteriorly; no teeth on palate; interorbital 4^ to 4%, little convex; preopercle edge minutely serrulate in young, nearly entire with age. Gill rakers 5 + 13, of which 2 or 3 lower rudiments; lanceolate, 1% in eye or equal
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 96 BULLETIN" 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM tal; maxillary reaches y^ in eye in young to front eye edge with age, expansion ly^ to 1% in eye, length 21/^ to 21/^ in head; teeth in villi- form band above, in front with pair of wide set canines, below teeth small, conic and uniserial, also 4 to 6 outer similar ones anteriorly; no teeth on palate; interorbital 4^ to 4%, little convex; preopercle edge minutely serrulate in young, nearly entire with age. Gill rakers 5 + 13, of which 2 or 3 lower rudiments; lanceolate, 1% in eye or equal gill filaments. Scales 49 to 62 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 to 5 more on latter; 9 above, 17 below, in horizontal series both above and below lateral line; 12 to 16 predorsal forward to occiput; 10 rows across. Figure 10.—Lutjanus nematophoeus (Bleekek). Variation cheek to preopercle ridge and preopercle flange naked. Scales with 14 or 15 basal radiating striae; 63 to 72 minute apical denticles, with 10 to 12 transverse series of basal elements; circuli very fine. D. X, 16,1, or 15,1, third spine 314 to 4 in head, fourth ray in young and with age fourth to seventh rays elongate and with one of branches extended as filaments more than half length of entire fish; A. Ill, 9, I, third spine 3^8 to 314 in head, third ray I14 to 1%; caudal ll^ to 1%, deeply emarginate; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 2%; pectoral ll^ to ly^; ventral 1% to li/^. Pale brown, lighter to gray or whitish below. Body with 7 to 9 more or less waved, often variably broken, incomplete or interrupted longitudinal gray blue lines or bands, each narrowly margined, both above and below with dusky or dark brown. With age often other narrower similar parallel blue lines alternate with more conspicuous ones. Sometimes blue line crosses interorbital or uppermost body. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloratio
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