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on body; and scale rows are taken below lateral 

 line. In measurements: standard length (SL) 

 is measured from anterior upper lip or upper 

 teeth, whichever is more anterior, to caudal 

 base; head length is measured from midline 

 on upper jaw to limit of opercular flap; inter- 

 orbital width equals bony interorbital measure- 

 ment; lower jaw projection equals distance that 

 lower jaw extends anteriorly to upper jaw, pro- 

 jected on longitudinal axis of fish; length of 

 gill raker equals length of raker at bend of gill 

 arch, measured from fleshy tip to, but not in- 

 cluding, T-shaped base; length of prenarial pore 

 equals length of enlarged ])ore on anterior snout 

 near junction of premaxilla and premaxillary 

 process; length of subnarial pore equals length 

 of large pore on a shelf formed by upper margin 

 of lacrimal bone, immediately below nares; body 

 depth (pelvic) is measured from articulation of 

 pelvic fin spine; body depth (anal) is mea- 

 sured from base of anal fin anterior to first 

 anal spine; length of pectoral fin is measured 

 from base of uppermost ray to apex of fin when 

 fin is aligned with longitudinal axis of fish; 

 length of soft dorsal fin base is measured from 

 axil of last dorsal fin spine to axil of last soft 

 ray; length of base of anal fin is measured to 



axil of last ray; and length of pelvic fin is mea- 

 sured from articulation of pelvic fin spine to 

 tip of fin. 



Terminology for spines and ridges of head 

 follows Jordan and Evermann (1898, 11:1765, 

 1768). 



Sebastes variegatus SP. N. 



(FIG. 1-3) 



HOLOTYPE 



(Original number AB' 69-25) ; 201 mm SL; 

 male; Gulf of Alaska south of Kodiak Island 

 (approximately long 1.52°25' W and lat 56° 

 25' N); on bottom in 284 m; 12 June 1969; 

 Ted Shigyo, U.S. fishery observer on Japanese 

 stern trawler Kirishima Maru. California Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, San Francisco, Cafif. (Number 

 CAS 24857). 



' Museum designations: AB — National Marine Fish- 

 eries Service Biological Laboratory, P.O. Box 155 .A.uke 

 Bay, .Alaska 99821; BC— University of British Columbia 

 Institute of Animal Resource Ecology, Vancouver 8, 

 British Columbia, Canada; CAS — California Academy 

 of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif. 

 94118; SIO— University of California, San Diego, 

 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, P.O. Box 109, 

 La Jolla, Calif. 92037; USNM— U.S. National .Museum, 

 Washington, D.C. 20560. 



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Figure 1. — Sebastes variegatus sp. n., holotype CAS 24857; 201 mm; male. 



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