^ QH 1 B4X 44, pp. 509-518 24 January 1977 HH PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON A REPLACEMENT NAME FOR TANGIA CHAN (PISCES: PERCIFORMES: LUTJANIDAE) WITH REDESCRIP-TIONS OF THE GENUS AND TYPE-SPECIES Ry William D. Anderson, Jr., P. K. Talwar, AND G. David Johnson Grice Marine Biological Lahoratonj, College of Charleston, Charleston, Soutli Carolina 29412; Zoological Survey of India, Indian Museum New Budding, 27 Jawharlal Nehru Road, Calcutta-13 India; and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La JoUa. California 92037. Chan (1970) described a new lutjanid genus and species, Tangia carnolabrum, from specimens collected in the South China Sea. Since the publication of Chan's paper, material of that genus, obtained from the Philippine Islands and the Arabian Sea off Quilon (Kerala State), India, has been ex-amined and compared with specimens of carnolabrum from the Soutli China Sea. In view of the close agreement in meris-tic characters and overall morphology between the new material and that from the South China Sea, we conclude that all of the specimens of this genus examined are conspecific. Rased on our studies of three of the paratypes and new mate-rial of carnolahrum and on the original descriptions, modified and updated descriptions of the genus and species and com-ments on relationships are presented. The name Tangia is preoccupied. Herein, we propose a replacement name. The following abbreviations are used: RMNH, Rritish Mu-seum (Natural History), London; SIO, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego; USNM, U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.; and ZSI, Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta. 44— Proc:. Biol. Soc. Wash., Vol. 89, 1977 (509)
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