TWO COTTOID FISHES FROM MONTEREY BAY, 

 CALIFORNIA. 



By Charles H. Gilbert, 



Of Stanford University, California. 



The two Cottoid fishes here noted are new to Monterey Bay and 

 one of them represents an undescribed species. The material was 

 collected and donated by Mr. Frederick Woodworth, and was taken 

 with a small boat dredge in shallow water near the shore. 



ENOPHRYS TAURINUS, new species. 



Plate 11, fig. 1. 



Type. — A specimen 64 mm. long, dredged m shallow water in 

 Monterey Bay, near Pacific Grove, California. Cat. No. 75064, 

 U.S.N.M. 



Measurements in hundredths of length without caudal fin: Length 

 of head, 48 ; greatest depth of body, 3 1 ; least depth of caudal peduncle, 

 6.5; length of snout, 12.5; diameter of eye, 14; interorbital width, 7; 

 length of maxillary, 17.5; length of preopercular spine, 21; length of 

 occipito-nuchal ridge, 18; length of opercular ridge, 11; length of 

 pectoral fin, 30; length of ventral fin, 19. 



Most closely related to E. claviger, with which it agrees in the high 

 compressed snout and the small mouth, in the presence of a band 

 of fine prickles above the lateral line, and in the absence of the 

 lengthwise median plate between the nuchal ridges, which is present 

 in E. hison. It differs from E. claviger in the shorter, more robust 

 preopercular spine, and from both claviger and hison in the reduced 

 number of rays in the dorsal and anal fins. Ten specimens of E. 

 hison from Puget Sound have the fin rays as follows: 



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