Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 1935 



illary reaching to middle of eye; lower jaw included; viUiform teeth on 

 jaws, vomer, and palatines; interorbital deeply concave, about | eye; a 

 flap of skin above posterior margin of eye, 1 on cheek, a couple at tip of 

 lower jaw, 1 on end of maxillary, 1 at each side of nape; top of head cor- 

 rngated but without spines. A band of scales along back, in 4 series 

 anteriorly, 1 or 2 posteriorly ; a naked area between this band and lateral 

 line of about the same width; a series of scales along lateral line, 2 series 

 along the mesial third of its length; below lateral line a band of scales in 

 7 or 8 series, becoming scattered and embedded under pectorals. Fins 

 greatly elavated in the males ; origin of dorsal over base of pectorals, the 

 first 3 spines subequal, the other anterior spines much longer, but slightly 

 shorter than soft rays ; tip of pectorals reaching to below the fourth soft 

 ray of dorsal; ventrals inserted slightly behind them; their tips reaching 

 vent ; caudal subtruncate. Color creamy white, mottled with dark brown ; 

 the mottlings forming irregular cross bars; some irregular radiating lines 

 from eye; ventrals white in the female, dusky or speckled in the male; 

 other fins with wavy dark cross bars and spots; lower parts largely bright 

 yellow in life. Here desci-ibed from specimens from Alaska at Albatross 

 Station 3291. Length 12 to 25 inches. Bering Sea, very abundant south to 

 Unalaska and east to Kadiak; much valued by the Aleuts as a food-fish, 

 although rather coarse; specimens secured at Captains Harbor, Unalaska, 

 St. Paiil Island, Bering Island, Unga, Karluk, and at Albatross Station 3635 

 off St. George Island in 24 fathoms. Characterized by its comparatively 

 plain coloration, the pale parts being largely bright yellow in life, wider 

 and shallower interorbital space, smoother side of the head, and longer 

 dorsal and anal. All specimens examined have dorsal XI, 21; A. 17. At 

 anterior and posterior ends of occipital ridges are centers around which 

 radiate very coarse broken strife, contrasting with the finer granulations of 

 IT. hemilepidotus, which are also disposed in radiating lines. The males 

 differ from females in the great development of all the fins, the higher flaps 

 on head, and the presence of more yellow on jaws and branchiostegal 

 region. The general color of body and upper fins is dull olive mottled 

 with bluish, the ventral fins and sides of belly often obscurely speckled, 

 the under parts translucent white in spirits but largely bright yellow in 

 life. (Named for David Starr Jordan.) 



Hemilepidotus jordani, Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mua. 1881,153, Unalaska (Type, No. 27598, 

 U. S. N. M. Coll. Sylvanus Bailey) ; Gilbert. Kept. V. S. Fish Comm. 1893 (1896), 431; 

 Jordan &. Gu.bert, Fishes Bering Sea, iu Kept. Fur Seal Invest. 1896, 1897 MS. 



2308. HEMILEPIDOTUS HEMILEPIDOTUS (Tilesius). 



(Red ScuLPiN.) 



Head 2i ; depth SJ, D. Ill, VIII, 19 or 20 ; A. 15 ; eye 4^ in head ; third 

 dorsal spine 3; third dorsal ray 2J^; pectoral If ; ventral lA; caudal li. 

 Body robust, not depressed; head large; interorbital space deeply con- 

 cave, its width f diameter of the large eye; occipital ridges low and 

 broad ; bones of top of head extremely rough, but without spines, naked 

 but with radiating stria^ ; small flaps over posterior part of eye, at occi- 

 put, over opercle, and on cheeks, maxillary, preopercle, mandible, and tip 



