. Fig. 27. Cheilodactylus bergi. Holotype. x f. This species is very closely related to C. macropterus (Schneider) from Australia and New Zealand, but may be at once recognized by the much broader supra-cleithrum. According to Gill's synopsis of the Cirrhitiform Percoids (1862, Proc. Acad. Philad., p. 114) this species would fall into the genus Dactylopagriis,1 but it seems doubtful whether the groups Dactylopagriis, Acantholatris and Chirodactyhis erected by this author are worthy of more than subgeneric rank at the most. Cheilodactylus gayi, Kner. Cheilodactylus carmichaelis (non Cuvier
. Fig. 27. Cheilodactylus bergi. Holotype. x f. This species is very closely related to C. macropterus (Schneider) from Australia and New Zealand, but may be at once recognized by the much broader supra-cleithrum. According to Gill's synopsis of the Cirrhitiform Percoids (1862, Proc. Acad. Philad., p. 114) this species would fall into the genus Dactylopagriis,1 but it seems doubtful whether the groups Dactylopagriis, Acantholatris and Chirodactyhis erected by this author are worthy of more than subgeneric rank at the most. Cheilodactylus gayi, Kner. Cheilodactylus carmichaelis (non Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830), Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1833, Poiss., ix, p. 489; Guichenot, 1848-9, in Gay, Hist. Chile, Zool. 11, p. 197; Valen- ciennes, 1850, in Cuvier, R. Anim., Disciples Ed., Poiss., pi. xxxi, fig. 2. Chilodactylusgayi, Kner, 1869, Reise 'Novara'', Zool., 1, 5, Fische, p. 92. Chilodactylus monodactylus (non Carmichael), Steindachner, 1875, SitzBer. Akad. Wiss. Wien, lxxi (1), p. 456; Giinther, 1880, Shore Fish. 'Challenger', p. 24; Delfin, 1901, Cat. Peces Chile, p. 70; Steindachner, 1903, Zool. Jahrb., Suppl. vi, p. 205; Rendahl, 1921, Nat. Hist. J. Fernandez and Easter Isd., in, p. 55. Depth of body 2§ to nearly 3 in the length, length of head about 3f. Snout (measured to tip of upper lip) if times as long as eye, diameter of which is about 4 in length of 1 Misprinted Dactylosparus on p. 117.
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