Twelve New Philippine Fishes

Abstract

Dorsal V-17; anal 18; pectoral 24; ventral 7. The depth is 6, the head a little more than 2, the snout 3, the caudal 3.6, the first dorsal height 3.77, the ventral 4 times in the length; the eye is 7.7, the pectoral 10, the longest second dorsal and anal rays 11.66 times in the head. The depth at the middle of the snout is 7.5 times in the snout length; the least depth of the caudal peduncle is 2.29 times in its own length. The first dorsal, unlike that of other known species, rises from an elevated base; including this, the depth is 4.6 times in the length; the length of the first dorsal base is 4 mm., that of thei second dorsal 6.7 mm., and of the anal 6 mm.; the distance from the second dorsal base to the origin of the caudal membrane is 7 mm. The depressed first dorsal reaches the middle of the second dorsal; the ventrals extend beyond the middle of the anal; their posterior margin is convex. The head (but not the snout) and trunk have many stout short blunt spines on the anterior half; behind the first dorsal and ventral origins they are sparse but are sharper and curve backward; tubular filaments, scattered over the whole body, become abundant and more elongate on the dorsal and ventral profiles back to and including the anterior margin of the first dorsal.