Jordan and Everuiann. — Fishes of North America. 2111 



Liparis callyodon, Gunthek, Cat., in, 162, 1861; Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat.Mus. 1881, 247, 271; 

 Jordan & Gilbert,* Synopsis, 743, 1883. 



2445. XEOIilPARIS MUCOSUS (Ayres). 



Head 4 in length; depth 4^. D. VI,26; A. 26; pectoral 29; caudal 12; 

 eye 7 in head; snout 3; ventral disk 1^; pectoral If; longest dorsal 

 ray 2; highest anal ray 2; caudal 1^. Body not greatly elongate, rather 

 robust, compressed posteriorly, holding its width well past middle of 

 body; head short and thick, broader than body, i longer than broad, its 

 length If times its de])th; mouth small, truncate, its cleft almost entirely 

 anterior, scarcely extending laterally; end of maxillary buried under the 

 skin, barely reaching to eye; nostrils not ending in tubes; lower jaw- 

 slightly the shorter; teeth sharp, tricuspid, the middle cusp mvich the 

 highest and longest, arranged in 9 oblique series in each jaw, becoming 

 more and more oblique toward the sides; iuterorbital space moderately 

 wide, about 3^ in head, a little convex ; gill slit not extending below upper 

 edge of pectoral, its length about 1^ times eye and 3 in ventral disk. Pec- 

 toral broadly rounded when spread, its notch comparatively very shallow, 

 its tip reaching past vent but not to notch in dorsal; ventral disk large, 

 slightly longer than broad, its posterior margin almost midway between 

 its anterior and front of anal, its anterior margin i its length from 

 chin; dorsal with a shallow notch; origin of lin over posterior margin of 

 ventral disk, its longest rays in its posterior half; origin of anal a little 

 nearer snout than base of caudal, the last 4 or 5 rays rapidly shortened, 

 making the fin truncate behind ; dorsal and anal scarcely joined to caudal ; 

 caudal long and slender, rounded behind. Color olive brown, light below ; 

 indistinctly mottled ; dorsal and anal darker at their margins; pectorals 

 uniform dark brown ; caudal light, with indistinct cross lines; lips dark. 

 Coast of California. Here described from the only specimen known to 

 us, 5 inches in length, from near San Francisco. It is now in the collec- 

 tion of the California Academy of Sciences (No. 360). Collected by H. D. 

 Dunn, off San Francisco, {mucosus, slimy.) 



Liparis rmicogus,\ Ayres, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., i, 1855, 24, San Francisco (Coll. W. 0. Ayres) ; 

 GuNTHER, Cat., Ill, 559, 1861 ; Steindachner, Iclitli. Beitr., iii, 54, 1875; Jordan & Gil- 

 bert, Synopsis, 744, 1883; description copied from Steindachner. 



Liparis imicostis, Garman, Discoboli, 52, 1892, with plates, figures and description in part; 

 account of the gill openings apparently taken from Liparis fiorce. 



Xeoliparis mucosus, Jordan & Starks, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 832, pi. xcv. 



2446. IVEOLIPARIS FLOB.E, Jordan & Starks. 



Head 3f in length of body; depth at ventral disk 5i; depth under mid- 

 dle of soft dorsal 4*. D. VI, 27; A. 21 to 23; caudal 15; pectoral 30; 



between the branchiostegals; dorsal commencing a little behind the gill opening. Yel- 

 lowish brown above; skin everywhere with brown dots; a silvery streak from the upper 

 jaw through tho eye and opercles. Kamchatka; common along the shores and about the 

 (Aleutian) Islands. (Pallas.) ^ 



* Described from a small specimen with injured flns lately reexamined by us, in the 

 collection of the Alaska Commercial Company, Tnalaska. (Coll. A. Greenebauni.) 



tThe description of Ayres is not very full and iuii;ht apply almost equally well to 

 Liparis Jl oral. The account of the head (4 in length) iind the eye (nearly 6 in head) point 

 rather to the present species as does also tlie (lescrijition of the lax skin. Steiudacliner's 

 account seems also to refer to the pre.seat species, although few of the really distinctive 

 characters are mentioned by him. 



