. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. FAMILY SERRANIDAE^—SCHULTZ 353 Description.—Precision measurements were made on the holotype and paratypes and these data, expressed in thousandths of the stand- ard length, are recorded in table 32. The following counts were made on the holotype and paratypes, re- pectively: dorsal rays XI,16; XI,17; XI,17; XI,16; XI,16; XI,17; XI,17; XI,16; anal rays 111,8 in all paratypes; pectoral ii,16-ii,l7; ii,16-ii,17; ii,l7-ii,16; ii,15; ii,16; ii,16; ii,16; ii,17-ii,17; vertical scale rows above lateral line 100; 97; 95; 91; 95; 96; 90; 102; scales
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. FAMILY SERRANIDAE^—SCHULTZ 353 Description.—Precision measurements were made on the holotype and paratypes and these data, expressed in thousandths of the stand- ard length, are recorded in table 32. The following counts were made on the holotype and paratypes, re- pectively: dorsal rays XI,16; XI,17; XI,17; XI,16; XI,16; XI,17; XI,17; XI,16; anal rays 111,8 in all paratypes; pectoral ii,16-ii,l7; ii,16-ii,17; ii,l7-ii,16; ii,15; ii,16; ii,16; ii,16; ii,17-ii,17; vertical scale rows above lateral line 100; 97; 95; 91; 95; 96; 90; 102; scales in a row from anal origin to lateral line 24; 26; 24; 25; 26; 24; 25; from lat- eral line to soft dorsal 11; 12; 12; 11; 11; 13; gill rakers on first gill arch 8+1 + 16; 8 + 1+16; 8 + 1 + 15; 8 + 1 + 15; 8+1 + 16; 8 + 1 + 16; 8+1 + 16; 8+1 + 14. Greatest depth to ; head to ; length of pectoral fin to ; all in standard length. Greatest depth to ; pectoral Figure 55.—Holotype of Epine-phelus spilotus, new species ( No. 141895), from Eniwetok Atoll. (Drawing by Dorothea B. Schultz.) to ; snout to ; postorbital length of head to ; eye to ; tip of snout to rear of maxillary ; least depth of caudal peduncle to ; all in length of head. Least depth of caudal peduncle in snout tip to rear of maxillary to Interorbital (fleshy) space flattish to slightly concave, about to in eye; least depth of caudal peduncle to in its length; teeth on middle of side of dentary in two rows in young and two rows in the holotype; a pair or two of short canines on each side of symphysis in each jaw; teeth on palatines in a narrow band, those on vomer in a narrow A-shaped band; preopercular edge notably convex, finely serrated; greatest depth of body opposite origin of spiny dorsal; posterior mar- gins of all fins rounded; fourth or fifth dorsal spine longest, slightly longer than last dorsal spine and
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