THE SHORE FISHES OF PERU 

 PARALABRAX CALLAENSIS Starks 



Cabrilla 



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Figure 40 



Paralabrax callaensis Starks, 1906, p. 787, pi. 65, fig. 2, Callao, Peru (original de- 

 scription, based on one specimen). — Evermann and Radcliffe, 1917, p. 74, 

 Guanape North Island, and Chimbote, Peru (description based on two speci- 

 mens; compared with P. humeralis. — Walford, 1937, p. 113 (description of 

 color, based on preserved material). — Fowler, 1940b, p. 770, fig. 50, "without 

 locality likely from Peru" (the specimen listed is at hand and agrees with other 

 Peruvian material). 



Head 2.4 to 2.6; depth 3.1 to 3.25; D. X, 13 or 14; A. Ill, 7; P. 17 to 

 19, usually 18; scales about 13 to 15-92 to 104. 



Body rather deep, compressed, its greatest thickness fully as great 

 as half the depth; back moderately elevated; dorsal profile anteriorly 

 nearly straight; caudal peduncle moderately compressed, its depth 

 3.0 to 3.8 in head; snout pointed, 3.4 to 3.9; eye 4.7 to 6.0; interor- 

 bital 5.6 to 8.0; mouth large, oblique; lower jaw projecting, entering 

 dorsal outline; maxillary extending nearly or quite to vertical from 

 posterior margin of pupil, 2.3 to 2.6 m head; teeth in jaws in bands, the 



Figure 40. — Paralabrax callaensis Starks. From the type, 247 mm. long, Callao, Peru 

 (U.S.N.M. No. 53471). (After Starks, 1906.) 



outer ones in each jaw somewhat enlarged, the rest minute, similar 

 small ones on vomer and palatines; vertical margin of preopercle 

 finely but strongly serrate, the serrae somewhat enlarged at angle, those 

 on lower margin rather larger and more widely spaced than the ones on 

 the vertical margin; gill rakers at angle about two-thirds length of eye, 

 decreasing to mere rudiments anteriorly on each limb, 18 to 22 on lower 

 and 10 to 12 on upper limb of first arch; lateral line complete, following 

 the curve of back; scales quite small, strongly ctenoid, extending for- 

 ward on interorbital and suborbital, nearly or quite to anterior margin 

 of eye, also extenduig somewhat on the bases of the fins; dorsal some- 



