Jordan and Evcrmann.— Fishes of North America. 



1989 



tinct in young specimens. Nasal spines very small Month wide trans- 

 verse, obliqne the maxillary reaching vertical from hmder edge of pnpil 

 2^ in kead ; mandible with its triangular tip protruding well beyond upper 

 jaw in adults, the jaws nearly equal in young; length ot snout equal to 

 interorbital width. Bauds of short cardiform teeth ou the jaws, arad a 

 bro!ad patch on vomer ; none ou palatines. A conspicuous pore behind last 

 !m Gill membranes almost wholly joined to the isthmus, the tree border 

 Scarcely noticeable, its width less than i diameter of the smal pupil. Lye 

 small, shorter than snout, 5i to 6^ in head. Preopercle with 2 short strong 

 pine; diverging backward, and a strong concealed po.nt below directed 

 downwar.l and forward ; upper preopercular spine about equal to eye, but 

 little longer than the lower and reaching I the distance from its base to 

 the tip of the opercular tlap ; opercle with a well-marked longitudinal rib 

 endino- in a sharp point ; scapular and subopercular spines present. Entire 

 top and sides of head, nape, and anterior dorsal region covered with small 

 de ma warts; supraorbital and occipital tubercles with short filaments 

 Spal above 'the lateral line with an irregular series or double series ot 

 lirge round spinous tubercles; a few scattered plates on sides below the 

 lateral line ; axil smooth ; plates of lateral line concealed in skin. Spinous 

 dorsal low,its longest spine U in second dorsal and 3 in head. In some 

 snecimens a single line of small sharp tubercles, resembling spines, extends 

 elch side of the rays of the second dorsal. The 2 dorsals ai-e separated by 

 a narrow space; pectorals large, reaching front of anal the lower rays 

 much thickened; caudal rounded; ventrals reaching f distance to vent. 

 DorsalIX,14; anall3; pectorall8; ventral 1,3; lateral line 36 to 40. Color 

 dark oliv^ brown above, with faint traces of blackish bars; sules spotted 

 or marbeled with whitish ; belly and lower parts generally white ; a black- 

 ish blotch ou cheeks, 1 on opercle, and a third ou front of mandible; pec 

 toral rays dusky, the membrane whitish, the fins crossed by 3 or 4 wavy 

 black bars, which sometimes join, inclosing oblong or roundish white areas ; 

 sp nous dirsal not banded, the dusky and translucent -e- ™ously 

 arrauoed; soft dorsal with 5 oblique broad dusky bars; anal with 4 bars 

 sometimes uniting to inclose white spots; caudal similar to pec oral and 

 anal; brilliantly colored males are largely black on sides and below wxb 

 man; large, rounded, partially confluent pearly white spots. Length 6 to 

 11 inches (Gilbert.) East shore of Bering Sea ; known from 13 specimens 

 from the Nushagak Kiver, near its mouth; 1 from Hereudeeu Bay on he 

 northern side of the Alaskan Peninsula and from Port Clarence (Scofield ). 

 (ZatMS, broad; -ceps, head.) 

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^ MX. Scoflela observes =" We t-^ 4 specimens of this^^^^^^^^^^ ^ey 



differ from the types shshtly m coloratioi « ^^P^^^^^'^^^fiJ'.ute marking on the body; 



the anterior portion of the second dorsal IS a darkey posterior third; 



tl>e caudal is black at the ^.^f^^^ud l^as an tindul^^^^^^^ ,^^^ ^^|;^.^^^ ^, ,1 



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gill arch." 



