Jordan and Evermann Fishes of North America. 2353 



Blakea elegans, STEINDACHNER, Ichth. Beitrage, v, 148, 1876, specimens from San Fran- 

 cisco ; not Myxodes elegans, COOPER. 



Clinus evides* JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 763, 1883; specimens from Monterey, 

 exclusive of part of synonymy ; name a substitute for elegans, preoccupied in Clinus. 



2690. GIBBONSIA ELEGANS (Cooper). 

 (SPOTTED KELPFISH.) 



Head 4; depth 4. D. V-XXVIII, 7 ; A. II, 24. Body rather strongly 

 compressed; head short, rather pointed, mouth small, terminal, rather 

 oblique, the maxillary barely reaching pupil, 3^ in head; lower jaw pro- 

 jecting; teeth as in Gibbonsia evides ; eye rather large, 4 in head, as long 

 as snout; a small fringed supraocular flap, as long as pupil; a slender 

 nasal cirrus ; first dorsal spine 2f- in head ; fins as in G. evides, the soft 

 dorsal shorter, higher, and less rounded, its longest ray 2 in head ; pec- 

 torals and ventrals moderate, about as in G. evides ; caudal fan-shaped on 

 a slender peduncle; scales small and smooth; head naked. Color brown 

 or red, agreeing with rocks or with Corallina, usually with eight irregular 

 darker cross bars extending on the dorsal and anal, sometimes nearly plain 

 brown; a dark spot probably always present behind head, and some, 1 

 or more, along lateral line posteriorly ; spinous dorsal with a pellucid spot; 

 usually many pale and dark spots and freckles on head and fins ; pectoral 

 and caudal usually barred, but plain in specimens taken in the kelp 

 (Macrocystis), these latter much less variegated than tide-pool specimens; 

 soft dorsal always with a large pellucid blotch posteriorly, this wanting 

 or obscure in G. evides. Coast of southern California; abundant in rock 

 pools lined with Corallina from Point Concepcion to Todos Santos; the 

 specimens here described from Point Loma. Close to the preceding, but 

 smaller and more brightly colored, the fin rays fewer. These differences, 

 though small, seem to be constant; whether the 2 species overlap each 

 other in geographical range is not known, (elegans, elegant.) 



Myxodes elegans, COOPER, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., in, 1864, 109, San Diego and Santa Barbara. 

 Clinus ocellifer, t MOCQUARD, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris 1886, 44, California. 

 Clinus evides, ROSA SMITH, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1883, 235, specimens from Todos Santos; 

 not of JORDAN & GILBERT. 



* The name evides may apparently be retained for this species, as the description of Jor- 

 dan & Gilbert (Synopsis, 763) is based entirely on Monterey specimens, typical of this spe- 

 cies. It was intended, however, as a substitute for the name elegant, already used in the 

 genus Clinus, to which these species were then referred. 



t The following is a translation of the description of Clinus ocellifer (Mocquard): 

 Head 4^; depth 4. D.III-XXX.8; A. II, 24; C.13; P. 12; V.I, 3. Body strongly com- 

 pressed, tapering rapidly behind. Eye a little longer than snout, 3| in head, twice inter- 

 orbital space ; lower jaw a little longer than maxillary, reaching front of eye ; a little 

 tentacle on anterior nostril, elongate, with 4 or 5 unequal branches; a tentacle over eye. 

 Three first dorsal spines nearly double length of those which follow, and separated by an 

 interval equal to that which separates the first spine from the third; last dorsal spines 

 longer than those that precede and stronger than any of the others; dorsal and caudal 

 well separated. Scales very small. Opposite fifth and sixth dorsal spines immediately 

 below lateral line is a lens-shaped spot of brownish black with a dull border; a second 

 ocellus a little before the posterior extremity of the spinous dorsal ; this surrounded by a 

 pale brown circle in 1 specimen ; the sides also with 5 irregular bands of a paler brown 

 than that of the spots; the anterior is a little behind the corresponding spot; the pos- 

 terior opposite the third or fourth soft ray of the dorsal; the posterior spot at the upper 

 extremity of the fourth band; other spots of the same color at the base of the dorsal on 

 the right of the caudal ; sides with a longitudinal series of small white spots, not sur- 

 rounded by black circle ; other spots on the anal in 6 transverse lines ; larger spots on 

 Hubopercle and about the ventrals. Teeth on the vomer, none on the palatines. Coast 

 of California. Two specimens, 93 mm. long. (Mocquard.) 



