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  • Collection: Toshio Asaeda watercolor drawings (MSS-016)

King angelfish (Holacanthus passer)

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plate #1 Centropyge passer Cherub or Angelfish. Wreck Bay, Chatham Is. (life size) Apr. 15

Emerald wrasse (Thalassoma virens)

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plate #2 Labridae - wrasse. Color of Thalassoma virens but ventrals not right. Clarion Is. Mar 24, 1932 (2/3 size)

Blackspot porgy (Archosargus pourtalesii)

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plate #3 Sparidae - Seabream (Archosargus pourtalesii) Chatham Is. Apr 17, 1932 (2/3 size)

Spinster wrasse (Halichoeres nicholsi)

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plate #4 Halichoeres nicholsi wrasse Labridae. Chatham Is. Apr 18 (2/3 size) "Some shows more bluish, some more greenish. Some shows faint dark band on body."

Creole-fish (Paranthias furcifer)

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plate #5 Serranidae - seabass? Paranthias furcifer Chatham Is. Apr 15, 1932 (2/3 size) "Color turns darker and less red color after a long time in the tank."

Bullseye puffer (Sphoeroides annulatus)

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plate #6 Sphaeroides(sic) annulatus - Puffer Tetraodontidae Chatham Is. Wreck Bay Apr 15, 1932 (2/3 size) "Some shows more brownish."

Six Fish Specimens (Two ID'd: Fat sleeper & Molly)

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plate #9 All collected in 1932: a) Xenistius sp.?; Acapulco; April 4 (1/1). b) Dormitator maculatus, fat sleeper; Acapulco; April 4 (1/1). c) fam. Scorpaenidae; Acapulco; April 4 (2/1). d) Poecilia sphenops, molly [♂]; Acapulco; April 4 (1/1). …

Starry grouper (Epinephelus labriformis) #1

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plate #10 Serranidae - grouper or seabass Epinephelus labriformis Socorro Is. Mar 28, 1932 (1/1 size)

Blue and gold snapper (Lutjanus viridis)

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plate #11 Lutjanidae snapper Lutjanus viridis Socorro Is. Mar 28, 1932 (1/1 size)

Island trevally (Carangoides orthogrammus)

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plate #12 Carangidae (jacks, scads, pompano) Citula orthogramma? Socorro Is. Mar 28, 1932 (2/3 size)