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Syugnathus californicnsis Storer 



This species is known to range only from central California 

 to Coronado,^ the Puget Sound records being based on speci- 

 mens of S. grisco-lincatusj- and the specimens recorded from 

 San Bartolome Bay, Lower California," being typical of S. 

 cxilis.* 



Table of Diagnostic Counts and Measurements of 

 Syiignatliiis calif orniensis 



BA ELENA 

 LOCALITY CORONADO LA JOLLA MONTEREY CENTRAL CALIFORNIA BAY 



Total length to caudal.. 224 163 155 186 160 157 176 



Length of eye 8.2 8.0 8.5 8.0 8.8 7.8 7.3 9.1 



Length of snout 2.0 1.8 1.8 1.8 1.6 1.75 1.8 1.7 



Dorsal rays 43 43 43 42 41 43 39 



Precaudal rings 19 21 20 20 21 21 21 20 



Caudal rings 48 47 48 45 47 48 47 47 



Rings under dorsal . . . . i -f9 1+9 1+9 1+8 1+ 8^ i + 8j4 1+9 i + Sj- 



Rings over brood pouch 22, 



'■ Hubbs, Univ. of Cal. Publ. Zool., 16, 1916, p. 158. 

 ^Starks, Ann. Cam. Mtts., 7, 1911, p. 177. 

 ^ Starks and Morris, Unk'. Cal. Publ. Zool., 3, 1907, p. 183. 

 ■"Osburn and Nichols, Bull. Aiiicr. Mus. Nat. Hist., 35, 1916, p. 154, 

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