FISHES OF NEW YOKK 631 



recorded was captured at Redondo Beach, California, in June 

 1893; this was 8 feet 2 inches long and weighed 1800 pounds. 

 The specimen mentioned by Mitchill and De Kay from lower New 

 York bay, within Sandy Hook, was 54 inches long and weighed 

 200 pounds. 



The sunfish is not edible. De Kay states that various para- 

 sites are frequently found adhering to its body; this is rendered 

 easy on account of the sluggish movements of the fish. 



The young sunfish is very different in appearance from the 

 adult and has been described under various generic names and 

 even referred to a distinct family. 



Suborder loricati 

 Mail-cheeked Fishes 

 Family scorpaenidae 

 Rockfislies 

 Group SEBASTINAE 

 Genus sebastes Cuvier 

 Body oblong, compressed. Head large, scaly above and on 

 sides; cranial ridges well developed. Mouth terminal, very 

 broad, oblique, the broad, short maxillary extending to below the 

 eye; lower jaw projecting, with a bony knob at the symphysis, 

 fitting into a rostral notch; villiform teeth on jaws, vomer and 

 palatines. Eye very large, close to upper profile, preopercle witli 

 five diverging spines, opercle with two; sujirascapular spines 

 strong; gill rakers long, slender. Scales small, ctenoid, irregu- 

 larly arranged; no dermal flaps. Dorsal flu continuous, very 

 long, the spinous part much longer than the soft part, of 15 

 strong spines; anal spines three, strong; caudal emarginate; 

 pectorals long, narrow. Branchiostegals seven. Vertebrae 12+ 

 19=31. Coloration mostly red. Ovoviviparous. One species 

 known, in the North Atlantic. 



307 Sebastes marinus (Linnaeus) 

 Rosefish; l^oncmj Haddock 



Perca marina Ltnnafats, Syst. Nat. ed. X, I, 290, 1758, Norway. 

 Sebastes noncegicns Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. IV, .'^27, 

 1)1. 87, 182i); GuNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. II, 95, 18G0. 



