Salarias quadricornis, _Cuv. et Val._ Hist. des Poiss. tom. xi. p. 243.
pl. 329.
Mr. Darwin’s collection contains a species of _Salarias_ so closely
resembling the _S. quadricornis_ of Cuvier and Valenciennes, that I dare
not describe it as distinct. Yet it offers some slight differences as
follows:
The profile, instead of being merely vertical, presents a rounded and
projecting front between the eyes, advancing further than the mouth
(as in the _S. gibbifrons_, Cuv. et Val.) The filamentous appendages
are similar, but the superciliary ones are shorter than the diameter
of the eye: the palmated ones at the nostrils consist of six or seven
bristles. The occipital crest is hardly so much elevated; its height
being not more than one-sixth or one-seventh the height of the head,
and only one-third its own length. The height of the dorsal equals at
least half the depth of the body; the depth of the notch above the
thirteenth spinous ray is rather more than half its height. The
fin-ray formula is—