106. SCOEP^NIDiE SEBASTODES. 
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giuate; longest spine f length of head, scarcely higher than the soft 
rays; caudal emarginate; anal low, its spines small, short, graduated, 
the second shorter than eye; pectorals narrow, rather long, not nearly 
reaching vent, the base f diameter of eye; ventrals shorter, not reach- 
ing tips of pectorals. Peritoneum white. Head 2§; depth 3|; pec- 
torals 5. D. XIII-13; A. Ill, 9; Lat. 1. with Oo-SO tubes; about 100 
scales iu a longitudinal series. L. 30 inches. Coast of California; 
abundant in rather deep water. 
(iSe&ns/es Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Xat. Sci. i, 6, 18.54: Sebasten paucisjnnis 
Grd. U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv. Fish. 83; Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 165; Ayres, 
Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1832, 215: Scbastes 2 )aiicis 2 )tnis Giiuther, ii, 98.) 
aa. Species with scales small (lat. 1. 60 to 70); crauial ridges little developed; skull 
thick ; lower jaw strongly’ projecting; anal rays III, 7 to III, 9; jaws scaly; 
gill-rakers very long and slender. {Sebastosomus* Gill.) 
1009. S. flavidtis Ayres. — Ydlow-tail Eoclc-fish. 
Olive green, rather pale, plain or finely spotted with yellowish; fins 
olive, caudal strongly tinged with yellow; young mottled. Body ob- 
long, compressed, the back not much elevated. Head rather long, 
pointed. Mouth large, oblique, the maxillary exteuding to nearly 
opposite posterior margin -of eye, 2 iu head; premaxillaries iu front on 
the level of lower margiu of pupil. Lower jaw strongly projecting, its 
symphyseal knob very prominent, but less so than iu 8. pauciHpinis. 
Preorbital narrow, without spines. Top of head evenly scaled, the 
nasal spines only present and very small. Cranial ridges obsolete, 
without spines; only the occipital ridges visible under the scales. In- 
terorbital space evenlj’ convex. Preoperc.alar spines rather strong, all 
of them directed strongly backwards; opercular spines moderate; su- 
jirascapular spines small, the upper obsolete. Scales medium; acces- 
sory scales variable. Dorsal spines low, slender, the longest 3 in head; 
the soft rays rather high, the fin very deeply emarginate, the mem- 
brane joining the thirteenth spine at about one-fourth its height; cau- 
dal fin notched ; anal s])ines low, regularly graduated, the third spine 
less than half the height of the soft rays, the second as long as eye; pec- 
toral fins shortish, rather broad, reaching tip of ventrals, but not quite 
to vent. Peritoneum white. Head 3; depth 3; jiectoral 1. I). XIII- 
15; A. Ill, 9; Lat. 1. about CO. L. 24 inches. Coast of California, 
abundant; an important food-fish. 
(Ayres, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. 18.62, 209, f. 64.) 
* Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1884, 147 : type Scbastes meIa)W2}9 Grd. {6F.fia6ro?, 
Sebastes; body.) 
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