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SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., March 1, 1880. 
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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW EMBIOTOCOID FISH (CYMATOGASTER 
ROSATEUS), FROV THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA. 
By DAVID S. JORDAN and CHARLES H. GILBERT. 
Body rather elongate, deepest at the shoulders; the profile thence to 
the occiput convex, the occipital and interorbital region considerably 
depressed ; body tapering backwards from the shoulders into a short 
and slender caudal peduncle. 
Head small, thick, the snout blunt. Mouth rather large, little oblique, 
the lower jaw included; maxillary slightly passing the vertical from the 
front of the orbit; premaxillary anteriorly on a level with the inferior 
margin of the pupil. Eye very large, its diameter about one-third the 
length of the head; interorbital region very broad. Lower lip with a 
narrow frenum, above which its margin is narrowly free. 
Teeth large, in a single row, much as in Cymatogaster frenatus, but 
blunter, slightly compressed and truncate at tip, somewhat incisor-like, 
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the edge, however, entire. Teeth few and distant, about g ) none on 
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the sides of the lower jaw. They are larger, blunter, and more wide-set 
than in Cymatogaster aggregatus. 
Seales on the cheeks in three series below. 
Gill-rakers small and weak, much as in Cymatogaster aggregatus, curved 
and apparently smooth. 
Seales large, but rather smaller than in any of the related species, 50 
in the course of the lateral line. 
Spinous dorsal high; the first spine two-fifths the length of the highest; 
the sixth to tenth of nearly equal height, and higher than the soft rays. 
Anal fin with the base oblique and convex, the spines rather strong, more 
or less curved, as in Abeona. 
