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1861. MEXTICIRRHUS UNDULATUS (Girard). 

 (California "Whiting ; Sand Sucker.) 



Head 4 ; depth 4 to 5 ; eye 7 in head ; snout 3^. D. X-I, 25 or 26 ; A. I, 8 ; 

 8cah>8 7-60-11. Mouth smaller, the maxillary reachin<i scarcely to front of 

 eye, 3J in head; teeth on lower pharyngeals bluntish. Snout long, little 

 projecting; eye small, 2:^ in snout, 1* in interorhital area; outer teeth in 

 upper jaw moderately enlarged, about as in M. saxatilis; lower pharyn- 

 geals a little broader than in M. amcricanus, the teeth coarser, and many 

 of them bluntish, none of them really molar, those of the inner posterior 

 corner of the bone much enlarged ; highest dorsal spines li in head, their 

 tips reaching to soft rays; ventrals li in pectorals, which are 1', in head; 

 scales all ctenoid. Color sooty grayish, with bright reflections ; the back, 

 all the fins, and under side of head dusky; undulating lines along sides 

 running upward and backward, made of dark points in center of each 

 scale; back often with very faint dark cross bars; edge of opercle dusky; 

 lining of gill cavity slightly dusky. Southern California, north to Santa 

 Barbara ; rather common along the sandy coasts ; a food-fish of moderate 

 importance, (undulatus, waved.) 



Umhrina undulata, Girabd, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, 148, San Diego, California 

 (Coll. A Cassidy) ; young individual; Gibard, TJ. S. P. R. R. Survfy, x, lUl, 1^58. 



Menticirrhus mididatui, Jordan &l Gilbert, Synopsia, 578 and 933, 1883 ; Jordan & Eigen- 

 MANN, I. c, 432, 1889. 



Subgenus UMBRULA, Jordan & Eigenmann. 

 1862. MENTICIRRHUS ELO\GATUS (Giintlier). 

 (Verbugata.) 

 Head 3|; depth 4J; eye small, 2J in snout, 7 in head; snout long, 3 in 

 head. D. X-I, 22 to 24; A. 1,7; scales 5-53-13. Upper lobe of caudal longer 

 than lower; scales rather small, about 25 in an oblique series from vent 

 forw ard to lateral line ; axillary scale | length of ])ectoral ; snout very little 

 projecting; gill rakers very short, 3-f 5, the longest about ^ diameter of 

 pupil ; lower pharyngeal bones narrower than in Uttoralis, the molar teeth 

 smaller, covering the whole anterior part of the bone; conical teeth on 

 posterior part of the bone, the outermost row enlarged ; body more elon- 

 gate than in other species; profile low, little convex; mouth small, the 

 tnax'llary scarcely reaching front of pupil, 3 in head; second dorsal spine 

 If in head, anterior soft rays of dorsal almost twice as long as the poste- 

 rior ones; caudal with an /-shaped margin; ventrals If in pectorals; pec- 

 torals If in head. Color bluish on sides and back, silvery below, without 

 stripes or bands. Pacific coast of tropical America, Mazatlan to Panama; 

 very common in the surf in shallow water. Its relations are evidently 

 ■with M, Uttoralis, but in several respects it represents a transition toward 

 Menticirrhus undulatus, its nearest relative among the typical Menticirrhi. 

 This relation prevents us from regarding Vmhrnla as a genus distinct from 

 Menticirrhus, as its characters would seem to indicate. {elon(jatus, elongate. ) 



TJmhrina elongata, Gunther, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.1864, 148, Chiapas; Gunther, Fiabes 



Central America, 387 and 425, pi. 64, fig. 2, 1869. 

 Menticirrhug elongattis, Jordan &. Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 1882, 107; Jordan &, 



Eigenmann, I. c, 432, 1889. 



