93. EMBIOTOCID.E DITKEMA. 
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]\routb but little oblique, the maxillary scarcely reaching orbit. Teeth 
strong. Spinous dorsal very low, the last spine highest, but much 
shorter than the soft rays; soft dorsal and anal high. D. X or XI, 23; 
A. Ill, 31; Lat. 1. C3; Vert. 15 + 19. L. 15 inches. Pacific coast of 
the United States; everywhere very abundant. 
{ Kriibiotoca lateralis Agassiz, Araer. Joiirn. Sci. Arts, 1854, 36(5: Tamiotoca lateralis 
Alex. Agassiz, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1861, 133: Emhiotoca lineata, ornata, and 
persincabiUs Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. Fish.; Giiuther, iv, 245.) 
93<s. D. jacksosii (Agassiz) Gunther.— Croaler; Black Perch. 
Brownish, tinged with green, blue, red, or yellowish; sides with about 
10 faiut vertical dusky bars; belly usually yellowish; head with blue 
spots; fins dusky, tinged with blue or red; aual in males sometimes 
red with a black patch, and the ventrals orange. Colors extremely 
variable, the pattern of color not definite. Form ovate, rather thick, 
the outlines convex. Mouth rather small. Dorsal spines low, much 
lower than the soft rays; caudal peduncle thickisb, the fin not widely 
forked. Scales on cheeks in 4 series. Head 3^ ; depth 2. D. IX or X, 
20; A. Ill, 25; Lat. 1. 58. L. 1 foot. Pacific coast of the United States; 
the most abundant of the larger species southward. 
{Embiotoca jacksoni Agassiz, Amer. Journ. Sci. Arts, 1853, 387, and 18.54, 366: Em- 
biotoca jacksoyii Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. Fish. 168; Gunther, iv, 245: Embiotoca 
cassiclii and E. webbi Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. Fish. 171, 173.) 
aa. Caudal peduncle slender, the fin widely forked. {Phanerodon Girard.*) 
b. Ventral fins blackish at tip. 
937. D. atripes Jordan & Gilbert. 
Light olivaceous above, pearly below ; scales above the axis of body 
each with an orange spot at base, its outer margin tiuged with blue, 
these forming faint reddish streaks along the rows of scales; anal with 
a dusky spot; ventrals broadly tipped with blackish; caudal not dark- 
edged. Body elongate, tapering into a long and slender caudal pedun- 
cle. Snout rather projecting. Head small. Mouth small, the maxil- 
lary not extending to ojfposite the eye. Teeth few and small. Eye as 
long as snout, 3J in head. Cheeks with 3 rows of scales. Gill-rakers 
longer than in related species, and pharyngeals stronger, with the teeth 
more nearly i>aved. Highest dorsal spine shorter than the soft rays. 
Pectorals long, reaching tip of ventrals. Caudal lobes equal. Head 
3^; depth 24. D. X, 23; A. Ill, 29; Lat. 1. 70. L. 10 inches. Mon- 
terey Bay ; locally abundant. 
(Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1860, 320.) 
bb. Ventral fins colorless. 
* Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, 153: tjqje Phanerodon furcatus Grd. 
{(pavepoi, visible; odoov, tooth.) 
