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217. Pholis dolicliogaster (Pallas). 



Recorded from Kigiktowik and Unalakleet, Norton Sound (Nelson 1887) as Muraenoides ruherrimns 

 and from Aleutian Islands (Bean 1882) as Miiracnoides dolichoi/aster. 



Fig. 109.— Pholis dolicliogaster (Pallas). 



218. Pholis fasciatus (Bloch & Schneider). 



We have 14 specimens 2.25 to 3 inches long, collected by Rutter at Karluk June 8-10, 1903, and nne 

 specimen 7 inches long collected by Mr. M. C. Marsh at St. Paul Island, Pribilof Group, 1906. The 

 species has been recorded from St. Paul Island (Bean 1882] as Mursenoides maxillaris and from Bristol Bay 

 at stations 3230, 3232 to 3234 (Gilbert 1895). 



319. Pholis gilli Evermann & Goldsborough, new species. 



Head 8.G6 in length; depth at origin of dorsal 10.5; eye 5 in head; snout 5; maxillary 3.25; man- 

 dible 2.5; interorbital 1.5 in eye; dorsal lxxxiv; anal u, 44; pectorals 15; branchiostegals 4. 



Body elongate, greatly compressed, almost ribbon-shaped; head small, upper profile arched, 

 anterior profile rounded; a high sharp ridge from nape to snout; snout blunt, short; mouth small, 

 very oblique; jaws nearly equal; maxillary reaching anterior edge of orbit; teeth conical, stout, in 

 a single row in the jaws, except for a patch on anterior edge of lower jaw, none on vomer and palatines; 

 ujiper lip a high, thin fold continuous posteriorly with the fold on lower lip. latter interrupted liy a 



Fig. 110.— Pholis gilli Evermann & Gohlsiiorough, new species. Type. 



broad frenum; nostrils close behind upjjcr lip, posterior in a small tube; a row of conspicuous tubes 

 below eye running backward and upward posteriorly; gill-opening free from isthmus, forming a broad 

 fold, not continued forward; eye small, anterior, high. 



Origin of dorsal above base of pectoral, its anterior spines concealed in membrane, short, gradually 

 lengthening posteriorly, the spines not concealed, the longest spine slightly longer than eye: dorsal 

 and anal connected for their entire height, forming a slight notch with the broad rounded caudal, the 

 length of caudal about half head: a.nal low, with 2 short stout spines, membranes thick, nearly con- 

 cealing the rays; vent midway between root of pectoral and base of caudal: pectoral short and broadly 

 rounded. 2.5 in head: ventral very minute, its rays about equal to spine, which equals pupil. Scales 

 minute, covering body, head naked. 



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