Bulletin - United States National Museum . i; A. I, 6, i, first branched ray 1% to 1%; caudal 1 to IY4,deeply forked, with slender pointed lobes; least depth of caudalpeduncle 2% to 3K; pectoral 1^ to 1%; ventral 1% to Iji. Figure i2.— Upeneus tragula Richardson, young Back dark umber-brown, all more or less mottled or speckled withblackish. Blacldsh brown band less than eye in width, along eachside of snout to eye then over postocular until finally crossing lateralline below soft dorsal and finall}^ various and reaching median base ofcaudal. Below dark lateral band ground color whitish, but o
Bulletin - United States National Museum . i; A. I, 6, i, first branched ray 1% to 1%; caudal 1 to IY4,deeply forked, with slender pointed lobes; least depth of caudalpeduncle 2% to 3K; pectoral 1^ to 1%; ventral 1% to Iji. Figure i2.— Upeneus tragula Richardson, young Back dark umber-brown, all more or less mottled or speckled withblackish. Blacldsh brown band less than eye in width, along eachside of snout to eye then over postocular until finally crossing lateralline below soft dorsal and finall}^ various and reaching median base ofcaudal. Below dark lateral band ground color whitish, but on sidesof body mottled or speclded with dusky. Iris brown or slate-gray,narrow yellow circle around pupil. Barbels whitish. Spinous dorsalgray, darker terminally and blotched with whitish. Soft dorsal palebrown with 3 or 4 dark irregular longitudinal bands. Caudal palebrownish to whitish on inner edges, each lobe with 9 oblique dusky toblackish bands, those of lower lobe mostly broader and more blacldsh,also not reaching lower fin edge. Other fins all dull brownish withobscure dark bands, frequently broken as spots. Suez, Aden, Arabia, Zanzibar, Natal, Maklives, Ceylon, Andamans,Singapore, East Indies, Philippines
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