1916.1 



Osburn and Nichols, Shore Fishes from Lower California. 



151 



compressed, its depth 1.5 in its length. Head 3.3, eye 3.S in head; interorbital 3; 

 snout 3.5; mouth small, tip of snout to end of maxillary 3.5 in head. Scales 32, in 

 13 series. Pectoral 1.7, not quite reaching; to ventral; ventral 2.3, not quite reaching 

 to anal; anal 1.2, of 13 rays; caudal even, 1.5, with 4 rows of small scales in its base; 

 dorsal 1.6, of 13 rays. 



Color in spirits brownish, paler below, scales more or less margined with dark 

 punctulations; about a dozen narrow, short, broken, dark bars posteriorly, connected 

 by a lateral streak from above tips of pectorals to base of caudal. 



Type No. 5208, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, 



Taken in south end of Magdalena Bay, March 20, 1911, 2.5 inches long. Four 

 others of about the same size taken with it and two dozen of various sizes the follow- 

 ing day, off Magdalena, 



Our specimens have been compared with a series of specimens of parvi- 

 pinnis from San Diego, Cal., from which they differ in the noticeably shorter 

 and deeper body and in the scale count. The following table is based on 

 the measurements of ten graded specimens of parvipinnis and of the sub- 

 species. 



F. parvipinnis 



Length of 

 body Head 



Depth 

 4.0 

 4.0 

 3.7 

 4.1 

 3.6 

 3.9 

 3.8 

 4.0 

 4.3 

 4.0 



Eye 

 4.2 



3.3 



Scales 

 37 

 36 

 35 

 36 

 34 

 37 

 34 

 35 

 33 

 35 



Locality 

 San Diego 



Average 2.38 3.44 3.94 3.79 35.2 



F. parvipinnis breids 



2.7 

 2.5 

 2.5 

 2.3 

 2.3 

 2.1 

 1.9 

 2.0 

 1.7 

 1.6 



3.0 

 3.2 

 3.3 

 3.0 

 3.2 

 3.3 

 3.1 

 3.2 

 3.1 

 3.3 



3.3 

 3.4 

 3.4 

 3.2 

 3.1 

 3.6 

 3.2 

 3.6 

 3.5 

 3.6 



3.5 

 4.0 

 3.8 

 3.9 

 3.9 

 3.5 

 3.4 

 3.5 

 3.5 

 3.3 



32 

 32 

 32 

 33 

 32 

 33 

 33 

 30 

 33 

 33 



Off Magdalena 



S. end Magdalena Bay 

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Off Magdalena 



Average 2.16 3.17 3.39 3.63 32.3 



