Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 1765 



dorsal spines ; spinous dorsal black-edged ; tips of caudal and ventral fins 

 and of posterior anal and lower pectoral rays dusky ; peritoneum silvery 

 with scattered small black spots. Length about a foot. Alaskan Penin- 

 sula to San Diego, in deep water, (altivelia; alius, high; velum, sail.) 



Sebastolobus altivelis, Gu-BEET, Eept. U. S. Pish Comm. 1893 (1896), 410, pi. 23, south of the 

 Alaskan Peninsula at Albatross Station 3338, in 625 fathoms. (Type, No. not 

 assigned, U. S. N.at. Mus. Coll. Gilbert.) 



Sebastes niacrochir, Gunther, Challenger Report, Shore Fishes, 65, pi. 27, 1880, Inland Sea 

 of Japan, off Inosima, in 345 fathoms. 



690. SEBASTODES, GiU. 



(KOCKFISHES.) 



Sebastodes, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 165 (paucispinis). 

 Sebastichthys, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sol. Phila. 1862, 329 (nigrocinctus) . 

 Sebastosomus, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 147 (melanops) . 

 Hebastomus, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, 147 (rosaceus). 

 Acutomentum, Eigenm.\nn & Beeson, American Naturalist 1893,669 {ovalis). 

 Primospina, Eicexmann &, Beeson, American Naturalist 1893, 669 (mystinus). 

 Pteropodus, Eigenmann & Beeson, American Naturalist 1893,670 (maliger). 

 Auetospina, Eigenmann & Beeson, American Naturalist 1893, 670 (auriculatii^s) . 

 liosicola, JoRD.iN & EvERMAN.v, Check-List Fishes N. and M. A., 429, 1896 {pinniger). 

 Eosebastes, Jordan & Evermann, Check-List Fishes N. and M. A.,430, 1896 {aurora). 

 Hisimniscus, J ouDAy S: Everman.n, Check-List Fishes N. andM. A., 431, 1896 (rubrivincHis) _ 

 Emnielas, Jordan & Evermann, new subgenus (glaucus). 



Body and head somewhat compressed; head large, 2g to 3| in length of 

 body ;•" depth 2i to 3f in length of body; mouth moderate or large, with 

 the jaws equal or the lower more or less projecting; the maxillary reach- 

 ing middle of eye or beyond, sometimes beyond posterior edge of orbit, its 

 length from If to 3 in head; teeth in villiform bands on jaws, vomer, and 

 palatines. Head more or less evenly scaled, without dermal flaps; inter- 

 orbital space convex or concave, widening markedly with age ; cranial 

 ridges t more or less developed, one or more of the following pairs always 



-^ The length of body in these descriptions is measured in the usual way, i. e., from 

 tip of snout to base of caudal tin. 



t Diagram of cranial ridges of Sebastodes. 



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