NO. 1714. JAPANESE SEA BASS.— JORDAN AND RICHARDSON. 465 



13. Genus SAYONARA Jordan and Seale. 



Sayonara Jordan and Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 30, 1906, p. 145 {snt- 

 smnir). 



Body robust, moderately elongate; mouth large, protractile; maxil- 

 lary without supplemental bone; minute teeth in jaws and on vomer 

 and palatines; upper jaw with a few enlarged teeth; tongue and 

 pterygoids toothless; preopercle finely and evenly serrated; opercle 

 with three flat points; gill-rakers moderate; branchiostegals seven; 

 scales rather large, ciliate; entire head scaly; lateral line complete, 

 high, its tubes simple, not angulated at base of caudal peduncle; 

 dorsal deeply notched, its spines 10, all low, first and last short; 

 spinous and soft portions subequal in length, without filamentous 

 rays; anal III, 7; caudal convex; ventrals short, anterior to pecto- 

 rals, close together, with a rather weak spine; pectorals subsymmet- 

 rical, blunted pointed. This genus is evidently allied to Serranus, 

 but it differs from other genera of its type by the divided dorsal 

 and the scaly jaws. 



{sayonara, "if it must be" — the common good-by salutation of 

 the Japanese.) 



25. SAYONARA SATSUMiE Jordan and Seale. 



Sayonara satsumx Jordan and Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 30, 1906, 



p. 145 with figure (Yamagawa, near Kagoshima). 

 Sayonara mitsukurii Smith and Pope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, 1906, p. 469 



with figure (Kagoshima). 



Head 2.3 in length; depth 2.8; depth caudal peduncle 2.8 in head; 

 eye 4.8; snout 4; interorbital space nearly flat, 1.65 ineye; maxillaiy 

 1.8 in head, width of its extremity 1.5 in eye; dorsal X, 15; anal III, 

 7; scales 2-33-12. Body rather short, not greatly compressed; pro- 

 file convex; mouth large, oblique; maxillary extending to vertical 

 from back of orbit; jaws subequal; minute teeth in bands in both 

 jaws; upper jaw with two of the outer teeth on either side of sjmi- 

 pliysis enlarged; preopercle and lower margin of interopercle and pre- 

 opercle finely and evenly serrated, no plectroid spines on preopercle; 

 opercle with three short flat spines; gill-rakers rather short, 11 or 12 

 on lower limb of outer arch, the 5 lowermost rudimentary, the longest 

 of the others somewhat shorter than the filaments. Scales large, 

 ciliate; head scaly, including snout, maxillaries, and lower jaw; lat- 

 eral line complete, running high, without angle under last dorsal rays; 

 tubules of first 20 scales short, simple, occupying anterior half of 

 scale only, those of scales farther back longer; soft dorsal scaly at 

 base. Spinous dorsal inserted in advance of pectorals; third to sixth 

 spine longest, third 3.75 in head; remaining spines gradually shorter 

 to the tenth, which is as short as the first; soft dorsal higher, longest 

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