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Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum
Identifier: bulletinunitedst20231966unit (find matches)
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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FAMILY SCORPAENIDAE—SCHULTZ 31 This species is covered with ctenoid scales except the head and fins, which are naked; in general, cirri or dermal flaps are feebly developed, though some occur on a few of the cranial spines (supra- ocular, preorbital, preopercular) and sometimes along lateral line; symphysis of upper jaw without concavity and no symphyseal knob developed at tip of lower jaw; palatine teeth present; longest dorsal spines about equal to length of longest soft rays of that fin; usually no spine is exposed at base of caudal fin.
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Figure 140.—Sebastapistes corallicola Jenkins, holotype, USNM 50611, after Jenkins. Color in alcohol.—Dorsal fin in a large percentage of specimens has a black blotch distally on membranes between the seventh and tenth dorsal spines; this is a characteristic mark. The general color pattern consists of 7 or 8 irregular bars consisting of blotches of varying intensity; first blotch at origin of spiny dorsal, next two from below base of spiny dorsal, fourth bar usually complete and extends from anterior part of dorsal fin rays to near anal origin, fifth, sometimes lacking, extends from posterior tips of dorsal fin across caudal pe- duncle and includes part of anal fin, sixth most prominent at base of caudal fin rays and includes a little of the caudal peduncle, seventh and eighth occur on caudal fin, one across the central part and one distally, leaving tips of rays white; sides and under parts of head barred or blotched; breast plain pale; paired fins with small blotches more or less forming 2 to 4 bars. Ecology.—This small scorpaenid appears to prefer the more exposed ocean reef and the lagoon reefs where conditions are more rugged. Remarks.—In my report on the fishes of the Phoenix and Samoa Islands (U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 180, p. 174, 1943), I identified this

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