Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America, 1837 



•2234. HELICOLENUS DACTTLOPTEBUS (Do la Roche). 



(Serran Imperial; Fanegal; Cardonniera; Scorfanudi Funal; Crabra.) 



Head 3i ; depth 2 J. D. XII, 12 ; A. Ill, 5 ; lateral Hue 43. Body not 

 much elevated, little compressed, the tail sleuder. Head large, little com- 

 pressed; cheeks, opercles, and occipital region well scaled; no dermal 

 flaps any where ; suborbital stay stroug. Mouth rather large, with teeth 

 as usual on jaws, vomer, and palatines; lower jaw not projecting; maxil- 

 lary extending to beyond pupil. Suborbital with a narrow raised smooth 

 ridge, which ends in a spine at the base of the stay; preorbital narrow, its 

 edge slightly spinous; interorbital space nairow, with 2 parallel raised 

 ridges and a deep groove. Cranial ridges short, sharp, about as in Sibas- 

 fodes rosaccus; preocular, supraocular, postoeular, tympanic, occipital, 

 and nuchal spines present; suprascapular spines sharp; no exoccipitals; 

 opercular spines moderate; jjreopercular spines sharp, the second longest. 

 Eye very large, 3 in head. Jaws naked. Gill rakers rather long and slen- 

 der. Pectoral very narrow, the rays not procurrent below nor thickened, 

 reaching anal ; ventrals small, reaching past vent ; anal small and low, its 

 second spine a little stoviter but not longer than thu'd ; dorsal low, little 

 emarginate, the spines slender. Scales ctenoid, regularly arranged; no 

 accessory scales. Color delicate scarlet red, the opercle and dorsal fin 

 somewhat mottled with brownish. Deep water of the Atlantic; very 

 common in the Mediterranean; occasionally off our coast, from Narragan- 

 aett to Chesapeake bays. Here described from a specimen taken off" Chesa- 

 peake Bay; a beautifully colored species. (Eu.) {ddxrvAoi, finger; 

 Ttrspov, fin.) 



Scorpcena dactyloptera, De la Roche, Ann. Mus., xin, 1809, pi. 22, fig. 2, Ivi^a, Barcelona ; 



Risso, Ichthyol. de Nice, 186, 1810 ; Gunther, Challenger Report, Vol. I, pt. vi, 6, 1880 ; 



Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 679, 1883. 

 Sebastes imperialis, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 336, 1829, Nice. 

 Sebastes dactylopterus, GiJNTHER, Cat., Ill, 99, 1860. 



Sebastoijhis dactyloptenm, Goode & Bean, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., x. No. 5, 214, 1883. 

 Eelicolenus dactylopterus, Goodb & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 249, pi. 68, flg. 244, 1896. 



2235. HELICOLEMS MADEREXSIS, Goodo & Bean. 



(Boca Negra; Pai de Gato.) 



Head 3; depth 31 in total length. D. XII, 12; A. Ill, 5; P. 19; scales of 

 lateral line 29 to 30. Eye 3 to 34^ in head, not projecting above profile. 

 Interorbital space very deeply concave, strongly ribbed, scarcely i diameter 

 of eye. Snout scarcely equal to eye. Suborbital stay not very prominent, 



* The following points are taken from Goode & Bean's description of HeUcolenus dac- 

 tylopterus: 



"Back arcuate ; head 2^ ; 28 to 30 tubes, about 50 scales ; dorsal fin inserted above inner 

 upper angle of opercular flap; length of spinous portion considerably less than head; 

 third spine longest, thence a gradual decrease to eleventh; height of soft dorsal consid- 

 erably more than highest spine, the rays projecting far beyond the membrane; base of 

 pectoral almost equal to longest rays, which reach vent; first 2 rays simple, following 

 9 branched, last 8 simple, slender, with nearly * the length of the fays free from mem- 

 brane; color of back extending in ti-ausverse bauds upon sides." 



