. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 199 Light brown, usually little paler below. Back and sides above with pale-blue dark-edged spots, some on head and flanks elongated and bar like. Iris brown, some small blue spots on bases of soft dorsal, anal, and caudal. Paired fins pale brown, unspotted. Red Sea, East Africa, Zanzibar, Mozambique, Mauritius, Seychelles, India, Ceylon, East Indies, Philippines, Japan, Queensland, Mela- nesia, Micronesia, Polynesia. Our series of specimens all show rather large spots variably present on th
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 199 Light brown, usually little paler below. Back and sides above with pale-blue dark-edged spots, some on head and flanks elongated and bar like. Iris brown, some small blue spots on bases of soft dorsal, anal, and caudal. Paired fins pale brown, unspotted. Red Sea, East Africa, Zanzibar, Mozambique, Mauritius, Seychelles, India, Ceylon, East Indies, Philippines, Japan, Queensland, Mela- nesia, Micronesia, Polynesia. Our series of specimens all show rather large spots variably present on the fins and sometimes as short vertical bars as those on the flanks in the nominal Plectropoma pessuliferum. 5522. Catbalogan, western Sarnar. April 16, 1908. Length 390 mm. 5521. Catbalogan. April 15, 1908. Length 218 mm. 7608. Endeavor Strait, Palawan. December 24, 1908. Length 385 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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