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Figure 13. Herklotsina viridianguilla
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species. Type.
T'seng! Sin2 (Green Eel).
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in head from snout tip; teeth simple, conic, only evident as narrow band in front of jaws; interorbital 5 to 6 in head from snout tip, convex. Gill rakers 6+16, lanceolate, 14 in gill filaments, which 2 in eye.
Scales 108 to 114 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 to 4 more tubes continued on latter; 4 above, 18 below, 12 or 13 predorsal, Caudal well covered with scales basally. Basal radiating striae 16 or 17, with fine circuli; apical imperfect radiating striae 15 to 18, with rather coarse circuli.
D. 40, I to 42, 1, fin height 12 to 23 in total head; A. 14, 1 to 16, 1, fin height 234 to 2 4/5; caudal 13 to 12; least depth of caudal peduncle 3% to 34 pectoral 1 to 178.
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Back above brocolli brown, sides and below pale vinaceous cinnamon
to whitish. Iris silvery white. Fins transparent.
Type, No. 53458 A.N.S.P., Hong Kong, 1930. Length 174 mm. Also Nos. 53459 to 53465 A.N.S.P., paratypes, same data, 128 to 162 mm.
Diagnosis. Unique in the genus and distinguished chiefly by its combination of characters as discussed above.
cular).
(Viridis, green; anguilla, eel; with reference to the Chinese verna-
PARAPERCIDAE.
Parapercis pulchella (Schlegel). Two examples, 138 to 148 mm.
TRIACANTHIDAE.
Triacanthus brevirostris Schlegel.
One example, 140 mm. Depth 22/5; head 33. D. V-23; A. 19.
Spinous dorsal blackish, reflected as saddle on body about base of fin.
MONACANTHIDAE,
Monacanthus chinensis (Osbeck). Sa1 Mang1 Yui2.
Four examples, 210 to 237 mm. Dorsal spine emerald green. Monacanthus setifer (Bennett).
Text figure 14.
Three examples, 85 to 200 mm. Following Steindachner in 1898,
Jordan and Fowler placed the Japanese Monacanthus cirrhifer Schlegel as distinct, chiefly on the upper profile of the head steeper, the snout less pro- jecting and the dorsal spine shorter.
Hubbs.
OSTRACIONTIDAE.
Ostracion stellifer Schneider.
One example, 73 mm, This is the genotype of Triorus Jordan and
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