Table 8. Selected Meristic Characters for Three Forms of Symbolophorus from the 

 Southeastern Pacific Ocean 



Character 



n. sp. 

 (Peru-Chile) 



n. sp. 

 (Large gland) 



S. boops 

 (Andriashev, 1962) 



Dorsal rays 

 Anal rays 

 Pectoral rays 

 AO photophores 

 Gill rakers 

 Supracaudal glands 

 Infracaudal glands 



Andriashev indicated that those specimens (bearing both supracaudal and infracaudal glands) 

 were males but prefaced the statement with "(?)." He stated (without a question mark ) that the 

 females bore only an infracaudal gland of 4 or 5 small juxtaposed scales lying about midway 

 between the end of the anal base and the first procurrent caudal rays. 



Symbolophorus californiensis 



(Eigenmann and Eigenmann, 1889) 



Fig. 46~Symbolophorus californiensis. From Bolin (1939, p. 106, fig. 9). (A.) Adult 

 female, (B.) Caudal peduncle of adult male. 



Description 



D. 14 ( 13-15); A. 20 (19-21 ); P. 17 ( 15-19); AO 7 (6-8) + 9 (8-10), total 16 ( 14-17); gill rakers 

 6 (7) -^ 1 -^ 15 ( 14-16), total 22 (21-23); vertebrae 39 (38-40). 



SAO interspaces about equal; SAO, midway between VO^..,. Pol well before vertical from 

 end of base of adipose fin; 4 (3-5) AOp over anal base. 



Supracaudal glands of males with 6 (5-7) small, round or oval, nonoverlapping luminous 

 scales; infracaudal glands of females with 4 (3-5) small, rounded, nonoverlapping spots. These 

 luminous organs begin to appear on males of 55 to 60 mm and on females of 65 to 70 mm. 



Size: To about 100 mm. 



Least depth of capture: At surface at night. 



Distribution: S. californiensis is apparently confined to the California Current from about 

 27° N to British Columbia and perhaps westward in the Subarctic Current to at least 155° W. 



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