Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North A?nerica. 1817 



2221. SEBASTODES RUBRIVIIVCTUS (Jordan & Gilbert) . 

 (Spanish Flag.) 



Head 24; depth 2^; eye very large, 3| in head. D. XIII, 12; A. 111,7; 

 scales 55. Body robust, rather deep and compressed. Head long, acute 

 in profile, there being a nearly straight slope from a bony prominence iu 

 front of spinous dorsal to tip of lower jaw. Mouth rather large, oblique, 

 the lower jaw projectiug; maxillary broad, extending to opposite middle 

 of eye, its leugth 2^ in head; premaxillary on level of lower border of 

 eye; interorbital space not so broad as eye, not widened behind, with 

 sparse, smooth scales; mandible naked; maxillary with a few scales; sub- 

 orbital stay very prominent, its tip nearly reaching preopercle ; preoper- 

 cular spines very strong, the second lougest; opercular spines long; pre- 

 orbital wide. Gill rakers rather short, robust, much compressed, the 

 longest about I of eye. Scales on head all small and thin, mostly cycloid ; 

 scales of body smoother than usual; accessory scales very numerous. 

 Dorsal spines robust, rather high, the fifth not quite ^ the length of head, 

 those behind rapidly shortened, the membrane joining the thirteenth 

 spine below its middle; soft rays about as high as spines; caudal slightly 

 emargiuate; anal low, its second spine 2+ in head, much longer and 

 stronger than third, both robust; pectorals moderate, not reachiug vent, 

 3| in length, the base equal to diameter of eye; ventrals not reachiug 

 tips of pectorals. Skull long, moderately thin; prcocular, postocular, 

 tympanic, and parietal spines present, long, strong, bluutish, the ridges 

 moderately developed; parietals meeting; interorbital space long, nar- 

 row, 5^ in base of skull, nearly flat, a rather deep groove between the 

 broad ridges over mucous canals ; ventral process of basisphenoid well 

 developed, mesethmoid processes compressed, not elevated; base of skull 

 somewhat curved, about as in Sehastodes eloru/atiis. Very pale rose-red, 

 almost white, with cross bands of a deep, intense crimson red ; these bands 

 broadest on the back; 1 of the bands runs across eye, snout, suborbital, 

 and maxillary, its boundaries indistinct; the next across nuchal region, 

 front of dorsal and opercle; the next across middle of spinous dorsal, 

 including ventrals and posterior half of pectorals; another across soft 

 dorsal and anal ; another across base of caudal, the fin itself being deep 

 rose color; the other fins share the color of that part of the body against 

 w^hich they lie; peritoneum white. Length 15 inches. Coast of Cali- 

 fornia, San Diego to Monterey, in deep water; rare. In life the most 

 brilliantly colored largo fish in our waters, (ruber, red; rinetm, banded.) 

 Sebastichthyg rubrivinctiis, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. TT. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 291, Santa 



Barbara Channel. (Type, No. 26989. Coll. Jordan & Gilbert.) 

 Sebastodes rubrivinctus, JosTJAJH Sc Gilbert, Synopsis, 669, 1883 ; Cramer, Proc. Cal. Ac. 



Sci., series 2, v, 1895, 601, pi. 64, flg. 23. 



Subgenus AUCTOSPINA, Eigenmann & Bceson. 



2222. SEBASTODES AIRICULATUS (Girard). 



(Brown Rockfish.) 



HeadSi^; depth 21. D. XIII, 13; A. 111,7; scales 45. Body oblong; 



rather deep. Mouth moderate, below axis of body, the jaws nearly equal ; 



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