Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America, 1325 



broad, not very acute anteriorly, the profile nearly straight from snout to 

 base of dorsal ; snout short, about equal in length to the large eye, 3| in 

 head. Interorbital area broad and quite flat, its width 4i in head. Mouth 

 moderate, terminal, obli(|ue, the li^is moderately developed; maxillary 

 extending to opposite front of eye, 2f in head; prenuixillaries in front on 

 level of middle of eye. Teeth iu moderate bands, those in the outer series 

 enlarged, but much less so than in Conodon vohilis, the teeth slenderer 

 than in the latter; 2 teeth in front of lower jaw somewhat caninelike. 

 Preorbital narrow, its leaht width about § diameter of eye; jaws equal 

 iu front; preopercle with its posterior margin somewhat concave, armed 

 with strong teeth, which are directed backward and somewhat upward; 

 angle of preopercle with a strong spine directed backward, its length 

 about i length of eye; lower limb of preopercle with strong spinons 

 teeth (as in the species of Plectropoma), directed forward and downward, 

 becoming gradually smaller anteriorly; nostrils small, roundish, the ante- 

 rior larger. Gill rakers rather slender, of moderate lengtli. Scales rather 

 irregularly arranged, those above lateral line forming series parallel with 

 it, which are somewhat broken opposite the angulation of the lateral 

 line; small scales on soft parts of dorsal and anal; dorsal fin low, divided 

 almost to base, the spines rather strong; first and second spines short 

 and slender, the second little more than | the height of the third; the 

 fourtli or longest 2^ iu head; soft dorsal low, its longest rays 3 in head; 

 caudal subtruncate, the upper rays longest, If iu head; anal rather low, 

 the second spine 2 in head, much longer and stronger than the third, which 

 is little lower than the soft rays; pectoral pointed, li\|- iu head; ventrals 

 1 '. Color dusky bluish above, silvery below ; sides of back with about 7 

 short black bars, each much narrower than the interspaces, the last under 

 last rays of dorsal, all terminating below at the lower edge of the dark hue 

 of the back; fins all pale. Length 8 inches. Lower California; known 

 only from the original types, 3 specimens taken by Dr. Streets at Boca 

 Soledad. It is close to Conodon iioMUs, but slenderer and somewhat dif- 

 ferent in armature, (serra, saw; fero, I bear.) 



Conodon plumieri, STREETS, Bull. IT. S. Ifat. Mus., vn, 50, 1877, Boca Soledad, west coast 



Lower California; not of Cuvier & Valenciennes. 

 Conodon serr if er, Jordan & Gilbert, Proo. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 351, Boca Soledad, Lower 



California (Type, 1754C, U. S. N. M. Coll. Dr. Streets) ; Jordan & Fesler, I. c, 488. 



544. BRACHYDEUTERUS, Gill. 



(BURKITOS.) 



Brachijdeuterus, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 17 (auritus, an African species). 

 Hcemtdopsis, Steindachnek, Iclith Noti/.eu, vill, 9, 1809 (corvincefonnis, a Brazilian 

 .species). 



Body oblong; scales large, those above in series parallel with the lat- 

 eral line; mouth small, outer teeth in jaws somewhat enlarged; inside of 

 jaws not red. Anal spines small or moderate, the second little, if any, 

 louger or stronger than third, and lower than the soft rays; soft dorsal 

 and anal largely covered with small scales; dorsal spines 12; soft dorsal 

 comparatively long, of 15 or 16 rays; otherwise essentially as in Pomadasis, 



