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Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: United States National Museum Smithsonian Institution United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, (etc.) for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt Print. Off.
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Panay Island. May 9, 1929.Lit. H. C. Kellers. Length 135 mm. (linea, line+scapula, scapula.) NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES—FOWLER 65 Family CIRRHITIDAE Genus CYPRINOCIRRHITES Tanaka CYPRINOCIRRHITES STIGMA, new speciesFlGUBK 11 Depth 2%; head 2%, width 2TV Snout short, broad, convex,length G1^ in head measured from snout tip, which is level withlower edge of pupil; eye 3%, greatly exceeds snout or interorbital butnot invading upper profile of head; orbit 2% in head as measuredfrom snout tip; maxillary reaches below front eye edge, expansion2% in eye, length 3% in head from snout tip; teeth minute, simple,in narrow bands in jaws, uniform or without enlarged canines; noteeth evident on palate; interorbital 5y2, low, broadly convex; hindpreopercle edge well inclined forward, with 14 uniform strong close-set denticles; suborbitals narrow, entire. Gill rakers 4+10, slender,lanceolate, long as gill filaments or longer.
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mm. H.W.F.del. Figure 11.—Cyprinocirrhites stigma, new species: Type (U.S.N.M. No. 99505). Scales 38 in lateral line to caudal base; 4 scales above to first dorsalorigin, 9 below to anal origin; 14 predorsal forward to front ofsnout; 3 rows of scales on cheek; large scales on opercles. Smallscales on chest, breast, and prepectoral region. Bases of vertical finsall finely scaled, also small scales on pectoral basally. D. XI, 17, i, first spine 4 in total head length, third spine 1%; A.Ill, 6, i, second spine 2, second ray 2, caudal 2% in rest of fish, 507383—43- 66 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM deeply forked and each lobe ending in sharp slender point; pectoral2%, rays 9, v; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 in total head length;ventral 1%, rays 1,5. Color in alcohol brown, becoming whitish on under surfaces. Sixhuge, irregular blackish brown blotches on back and below fourthtwo dark vertical bands. Two dark blotches on trunk along lateralline. Kow of five or six dark

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