The Philippine journal of science. [Vol. 67, no. 1]

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Montilla: Philippine Holocentrida

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Island, No. 3884, 117 mm, May 2, 1908. PANAY, Iloilo Province,
Iloilo, No. 14432, 132 mm, June or July, 1923.
IOLOCENTRUS CAUDIMACULATUS Ruppell. Plate 3, fig. 1.
Holocentrus spinifer RUPPELL, Atlas Reise N6rdl. Afrika, Fische
(1828) 86, pl. 23, fig. 1.
Holocentrum spiniferum CUVIER and VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Pois.
3 (1829) 206; 7 (1831) 347.
Holocentrum caudimaculatum RUPPELL, Atlas Reise N6rdl. Afrika,
Fische (1828) 97; GUNTHER, Cat. Brit. Mus. 1 (1859) 41; KNEM,
Fische Novara-Exped. (1865-1867) 8; PLAYFAIR, Proc. Zool. Soc.
London (1867) 855; BLEEKER, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. 4 (1873) 219;
GUNTHER, Fische der Siidsee 1 (1873-1875) 95; DAY, Fishes of India 4~ (1878-1888) 172; WEBER and DE BEAUFORT, Fish. IndoAustr. Arch. 5 (1929) 247-249.
Holocentrus caudimaculatus JORDAN and SEALE, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish.
25 [1905 (1906)] 223.
Dorsal XI, 14; anal IV, 9; pectoral 14; ventral 1.7; lateral
line 41 or 42; transverse line 12.
Body oblong, dorsal profile slightly arched; height 2.5. Head
2.6 to 2.8; eyes 3, longer than snout; interorbital space 1.75 in
diameter of eye; maxillary reaching to below middle of eye;
bony ridges bordering groove for peduncle of premaxillaries
ending in a blunt bifid spine in front; front margin of nasal
opening with one or more spines in old specimens; jaws equal.
Preorbital serrated, anteriorly with a large blunt spine pointing
downward and followed by small spines directed backward.
Postorbital serrated. Opercular bones serrated, upper opercular
spine longest; preopercular spine as long as or longer than
orbit. Preoperculum with seven transverse rows of scales.
Shoulder bone serrated. Intranasal spines 2. Eight scales
between occiput and base of dorsal. Teeth villiform. Fourth
dorsal spine longest, equal to about 2.3 of height of body, but
shorter than soft dorsal. Dorsal interspinous membrane rather
deeply emarginate. Third anal spine longest and strongest,
longer than fourth dorsal spine and equalling about 1.3 of height
of body; ventrals about equal to pectorals; ventral spine about
equal to fourth dorsal spine, shorter than eye and snout. Least
height of caudal peduncle 1.5 in its length. Caudal forked.
Preserved specimens in alcohol brownish, a conspicuous silvery patch on upper part of free portion of tail just behind
end of soft dorsal fin; a reddish brown band along base of dorsal
and anal.
Distribution.-Red Sea, Seas of India, and the Malay Archipelago.