. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 400 NATIONAL MUSEUIM BULLETIN 2 02 Vol. 2 Study of the Marshall Islands material of this genus leads to the conclusion that the specimens listed from there belong to a single species. They vary greatly in color pattern, but intermediates are found that connect C. xenicus, a mature male, with less mature males of D. dorotheae, C. cooki Giinther, and C. cooki as figured by Herre (Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Zool. Ser., vol. 21, pp. 391-2, fig. 35, 1936). These three named forms are believed to represent the same species, Callionymus goramensis
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 400 NATIONAL MUSEUIM BULLETIN 2 02 Vol. 2 Study of the Marshall Islands material of this genus leads to the conclusion that the specimens listed from there belong to a single species. They vary greatly in color pattern, but intermediates are found that connect C. xenicus, a mature male, with less mature males of D. dorotheae, C. cooki Giinther, and C. cooki as figured by Herre (Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Zool. Ser., vol. 21, pp. 391-2, fig. 35, 1936). These three named forms are believed to represent the same species, Callionymus goramensis Bleeker. In nearly all previous descriptions of this form of callionymid, few comparisons have been made with already described species, mostly because of the confused nature of the literature and the lack of a comprehensive revision. The exact relationship of these four species cannot be determined without large series from Japan, the PhoenLx Islands, Cook Island, and Goram Island. However, bringing them together here will at least caU the at- tention of ichthyologists to this group of "species," not previously defined in relation to each Figure 130.—Diplogrammus goramensis (Bleeker), USNM 115735, after Schultz. DIPLOGRAMMUS GORAMENSIS (Bleeker) Figure 130 Callionymus goramensis Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. , vol. 15, p. 214, 1858 (type locality, Goram Island). Callionymus cooki Gunthek, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1871, p. G65 (type locality, Rarotonga, Cook Island). Calymmichthys xenicus Jordan and Thompson, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol, 6, No. 4, p. 296, pi. 36, fig. 2, 1914 (type locality, Sagami Bay, Japan). Dermosleira dorotheae Schultz, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 100, p. 267, fig. 26, 1943 (holotype USNM 115735; type locality, E,ose Island, Manua Islands). SPECIMENS STUDIED Bikini Atoll: 9 stations, 14 specimens, 22 to 48 mm. in standard length. Rongelap Atoll: 4 stations, 23 specimens, 20 to 52 Please note that these images are extracted from scann
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