Jordan and Evcrmann. — -Fishes of North America. 1937 



2309. CALYCILEPIDOTUS SPIXOSUS, Ayres. 



Head 2f; deptli 5. D. Ill, VIII, 19; A. 15; scales 60; eye 4^ in head; 

 maxillary 2^; fourtli dorsal spine 4; pectoral 1^; ventral 2; caudal \%. 

 Body rather elongate, depressed; head broad, somewhat concave between 

 tiie occipital ridges; 2 sharp radiating ridges behind upper postericn- 

 margin of each orbit, somewhat broken up into irregular spines; posterior 

 part of siipraorbital rim broken up into spines; top of head covered with 

 loose skin, and with thick-set mucous tubes; interorbital space narrow, 

 concave, \ diameter of eye ; preopercle with 2 strong, shortish, diverging 

 spines above; fleshy slips above opercle, near upper posterior part of eye, 

 and at occipnt; a long fleshy slip on maxillary, and 4 on lower jaw; many 

 scales on sides with small flaps; skin, where not scaly, thin and lax; dor- 

 sal band of scales with about 7 rows at its widest part, anteriorly much 

 wider than the space between it and the lateral band; isthmus rather 

 broad, the membranes not forming a fold across it; dorsal fins consid- 

 erably connected, spines very low, the highest about f the height of the 

 soft rays; pectorals broad, shortish, about reaching vent; distance from 

 spinous dorsal to suout greater than length of pectoral. Color brown, 

 mottled and oltscurely barred, often tinged with red ; top of head usually 

 with brick red ; fins all, except ventrals, mottled with blackish and red- 

 dish; skin joining bones of jaws unspotted; belly whitish, immaculate. 

 Here described fi'oni a specimen from Monterey Bay, California, 10 inches 

 in length. Coast of California, in rather deep water ; not common ; known 

 only fr<Hn about Monterey and San Francisco, {sjnnosus, spiny.) 



GalyciU'pid.otus gpinosui, Atees, Proc. Cal. Ac. Scl., i, 1855, 76, San Francisco. 

 Hemilepidotus sjnnosus, Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1856, 134; Girard, U. S. Pac. K. 

 R. Surv., X, Fish., 68, 1858; Jordan & Gilbert, Synop.'fis, 715. 



727. ENOPHRYS, Swainson. 



(Stone Sculpins.) 



Enophrys, SwAiNSON, Class'n Fishes, n, 271, 1839 (claviger). 

 Aspicottus, Girard, Proc. Ac Kat. Sci. Pliila. 1854, 130 (bison). 

 Olypeocottus, Atres, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1854, 12 (robustus). 



Body short and thick, depressed anteriorly. Head very large, mailed 

 above with rugose, bony plates; a series of large, rough, bony plates along 

 lateral line; no scales. Teeth in villifoi-ni bands in jaws and on vomer, 

 none on palatines; preopercle with strong, straight spines; suborbital 

 stay broad, externally bony; gill membranes joined to the isthmus, not 

 forming a fold across it; a slit behind fourth gill. Dorsal fins separate, 

 the anterior short, not notched; anal short. Intestinal canal elongate. 

 Herbivorous, feeding chiefly on algai. {iv, on; o^pv?, eyebrow.) 



Aspicottus (acnri';, shield ; CotUts) -. 



a. Preopercular spine about ^ head, reaching end of opercle or a little beyond; bony 



plates of side without keel or spine. bison, 2310. 



Enophrys : 



aa. Preopeicular spine very long, reaching middle of spinous dorsal; bony plates of 



sides eacii with a serrated keel or spine. CLAVIGER, 2311. 



