Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North Ame^'ica. 1761 



ing to Goode & Bean it breeds abundantly off the south coast of New- 

 England in late summer between 100-180 fathoms and there is no reason 

 to believe that the young rise to the surface; the fry were caught by 

 the bushel at these depths, (marijius ; marine.) An important food-fish 

 beautifully colored. (Eu.) 



Perca marina, Linn^us, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, I, 290, 1758, Norway; Artedi's reference to 



Serranus scriba erroneously included in the synonymy. 

 Perca norvegica, AscANii's, Icones Eev. Nat. 1772, i, 7, tab. 16, Norway. 

 Holncentrus sanguineus, Faber, Fische Islands, 126, 1829, Iceland. 

 Sebastes septentrionaUs, Gaimard, Voy. Islands and Greenland, Poiss, pi. 9. 

 Sehastcs fasciatus* Storer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., v, 31, 1854, Provincetown, Mass.- 



young specimen, said to have but 13 dorsal spines. 

 Perca norwegica, MiJLLER, Zool. Danica, 46, 1779. 

 Sehastes norvegicus, Cuvier & Valenciennes. Hist. Nat. Poiss., iv, 327, pi. 87, 1829; 



Richardson, Fauna Boreali-Amer., 52, 1836 ; Storer, Hist. Fishes Mass., 38, pi. 8, fig! 



1, 1867 ; GiJNTHER, Cat., n, 95, 1860 ; GiJNTHER, Challenger Seport, xxir, Deep Sea Fishes, 



17, 1880; CoLLETT, Norges Fishes, 19; Day, Fishes of Great Britain, i, 42, pi. 18; 



Goode & Bean, Bull. Esses Inst., xi, 14. 

 Sebastes marimis. White, Cat. Brit. Fish., 8; Collett, Norske Nordhavs Expedition, 



Fiske, 15, pi. 1, figs. 3 and 4, 1880 ; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 651, 1883 ; Lilljeborg! 



Sveriges och Norges Fiskar, 92, 1891 ; Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 260 fiff' 



248,1896. ^' ^ 



Sebastes viviparus,f Kroyer, Naturhist. Tidsskr., I, 275, 1844-45, Norway, in shallow water; 



Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliiia. 1863, 333 ; Gunther, Cat., ii, 96. 

 Sebastes marinug viviparus, .Jordan .«c Gilbert, Synopsis, 651, 1883. 

 Sebastes regulus, Ekstrum, Skand. Fish., Ed. i, 197. plate only, no description. 



689. SEBASTOLOBUS, Gill. 

 Sebastolobus, Gill, Keport Smith.sonian Institution 1880,375 (1881), (macrochir). 



Pectorals with a wide base, produced backward near the upper margin 

 and not medially, lower rays thickened, t-xtendiug much beyond rays next 

 above in a linguiform lobe; ventrals directly under axils of pectorals, 

 with the outer rays produced, thick, branched; anal III, 5; vertebra} 

 11 4- 18 = 29 ; otherwise as in Sebastes. Pacific Ocean in deep water. 

 {6s/3adr6i, Sebastes; Xo/36i, lobe.) 



a. Dorsal rays XVI, 9; branchiostegals naked; eye 3? in head. alascanus, 2175. 



aa. Dorsal rays XV, 9 ; branchiostegals scaly ; eye 2j in head. altivelis, 2176. 



2175. SEBASTOLOBUS ALASCANUS, Bean. 

 Head slightly more than 2f ; depth 4. D. XVI or XVII, 9 ; A. Ill, 5 ; pec- 

 toral 22. Lateral line 31 (pores). Body compressed, head large, about as 

 wide as high. Eye large, ^ in head, a little longer than snout. Interor- 

 bital space narrow, concave, nearly 3 in orbit, with a pair of obscure lon- 



* Body elongated, not convex in front of dorsal fin ; 4 distinct dark-brown transverse 

 bands on the sides, the broadest at the posterior portion of the body. Dorsal XIII, 14; 

 anal III, 7. (Storer.) This is doubtless a young example of Sebastes marinus, and not a 

 Sebastodes. ' 



1 Sebastes viviparus is thought to be a shore form or variety of Sebastes marimis. We 

 have not been able to distinguish it. The characters alleged are the following : 



General color brownish red, somewhat mottled, with a blackish blotch on the opercle, 

 and some other brownish spots on the body. Pectoral fins a little longer than in Sebastet 

 marmiis; mterocular space rather narrower. Head 3i: depth U. D. XV, 14; A. Ill, 8. 

 JMortliern seas ot Europe; smaller than the preceding, and living near shore; thought to 

 be a shallow water variety ; perhaps contiued to the fjords and deep baya of the Nortli. 



