5. SEBASTES. 95 



1. Zaniolepis latipinnis. 

 Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phi/ad. 1857, p. 202, and U.S. Pacif. R.R. 

 Exped. Fkhes, p. 73. pi. 17. f. 5, 6. 



B. (J. D. 21 I 13. A. ^. V. 1/5. 



The height of the body equals the length of the head, and is one- 

 fifth of the total. The first dorsal spine produced ; the second very 

 elongate. Yellowish-brown ; .fins spotted with black. (Oir.) 



Fort Steilacoom, Puget's Sound. 



Second Group. SCORP-ffiNINA. 



Tnglidce with the spinous portion of the dorsal equally or more 

 developed than the soft and than the anal, which is not elongate, 

 with the body naked or covered with ordinary scales. Pyloric ap- 

 pendages in small number. 



5. SEBASTES*. 

 Sebastes, Cuv. Sf Vat. iv. p. 326. 



Head and body compressed, above scaly to, or beyond, the orbits, 

 without groove on the occiput, generally with a few small spines ; 

 praeoperculunl armed ; body covered with scales of moderate or small 

 size ; no skinny appendages. Fins not elongate : one dorsal, sepa- 

 rated by a notch in a spinous and soft portion, with twelve or thirteen 

 spines ; the anal with three. No pectoral appendages. ViUiform 

 teeth in the jaws, on the vomer, and generally on the palatine bones. 

 Seven branchiostegals. Air-bladder mostly present ; pyloric append- 

 ages in moderate or small number. 



Inhabitants of nearly all the seas ; but not yet found on the Atlantic 

 shores of Tropical America and on the east coast of Africa. 



1. Sebastes norwegicus. 



Perca marina, L. St/st. Nat. i. p. 483 ; Pennant, Brit. Zool. iii. p. 226, 



pi. 48 (lower figure). 

 Cyprinus pelagicus, L. Faun. Suec. p. 320. 

 Karfe, Olafsm, Island, i. p. 191, ii. p. 208. tab. 29. 

 Perca norwegica, Miiller, Zool, Dan. p. 46 ; Ascan. Icon. li. tab. 16 ; 



Fabric. Faun. Gronl. p. 167. 

 Spams erythrinus, Miill. Zool. Dan. p. 45 (not X.). 

 Holocentrus norwegicus, Lacep. iv. p. 390. 



sanguineus, Faber, Fische Islands, p. 126. 



Sebastes noi-wegicus, Cuv. Hf Val. iv. p. 327. pi. 87 ; Yarrcll, Brit. 



Fishes, i. p. 87 ; Richards. Faun. Bar. Amer. Fishes, p. 52 ; Storer, 



Rep. Mass. p. 26; Dekay, New York Fauna, Fishes, Tp. 60. pi. 4. f 2 ; 



Kroyer, Danm. Fisk., and Naturhist. Tidsskr. 1844-45, i. p. 270. 

 septentrionalis, Gaim. Voy. Isl. Sf Groenl. Poiss. pi. 9. upper fig, 



D. '4. A. -2-- L- lat. 75. Cisc. pylor. 9. Vert. 12/19. 



15 8-9 '^'' 



The height of the body is 3f in the total length, the length of 



* 1. Sebastes vachellii, Richards. Jrhth. China, p. 214. — Canton. 



2. auriculatus, Gir. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1854, pp. 131, 146, an4 



U. 8. Pacif. R. R. Exped. Fishes, p. 80.— California. 



