MULLIDAE Upeneus guttatus (photo by Seishi Kimura) Upeneus guttatus (Day, 1868) D VII, 9; A I, 7; P1 12; LLp 31; GR 5-6 + 15-16 = 21; V 10+14. Body elongate, cylindrical. Chin with 2 slender barbels, usually just reaching to posterior margin of preopercle. Mouth small; small conical blunt teeth in a narrow band on jaws, palatines, ectopterigoids, and in 2 small patches on vomer. Scales present on side of snout; 6 scales between dorsal fins; 10-11 scales along dorsal edge of caudal peduncle. Color: body silvery pink with bright vermilion spots or blotches; barbels yellow; bright red bars on both dorsal fins; faint reddish bars on pelvic fins; upper lobe of caudal fin with 5 red oblique bars, the lower lobe with a red wide band from center of caudal fin base to inner hind margin and 5 red oblique bars. Size: observed specimens 10-11 cm SL. Distribution: eastern Indian Ocean, Andaman Sea, and South China Sea. Remarks: similar to Upeneus japonicus Houttuyn, 1782, but distinguished from it by having red oblique bars on lower lobe of caudal fin. (Seishi Kimura)