Jordan aud Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2681 



Anterior nostril with a short tube, and a narrow flap arising from its 

 inner edge. Interorbital width 3f to 5 in orbit, slightly concave, the lower 

 ridge much stronger and higher than the upper, scaled posteriorly. Eye 

 large, the orbit 3 to 3f in head. Gill rakers rather long and slender, 

 coarsely dentate on inner margin, distant, 10 or 11 on anterior limb of 

 arch. Scales large, in regular series, appearing cycloid, but the edges 

 very minutely spinous; lateral line gently rising on anterior , but 

 without curve; fifty vertical series of scales, with as many pores in lat- 

 eral line; 13 to 15 horizontal series above lateral line. Dorsal beginning 

 immediately behind posterior nostril of blind side, ending so as to leave 

 caudal peduncle free for a distance equaling \ diameter of eye; ventrals 

 long, reaching beyond origin of anal; pectoral very long and slender, 

 normally Avith 9 rays, the longest ray on colored side longer than head, 

 about i length of body. Color light olive brown, irregularly necked with 

 slaty, and with numerous bright yellow spots broadly ocellated with 

 brownish black, a series of these usually on lateral line, and 2 others 

 halfway between it and the dorsal and ventral outlines, respectively, 

 those of the latter series forming pairs; fins not conspicuously marked, 

 the pectorals sometimes with faint broad dusky cross bars. Both coasts of 

 Lower California. In external appearance the species closely resembles 

 C. sordidus, to which, however, it is not closely related, differing in num- 

 ber of scales, fin rays, and vertebra, and in the size and number of gill 

 rakers. (Gilbert.) Many specimens, from Albatross Stations 3039, 3043, 

 and 3044, in 47 to 74 fathoms. (t-ai/86$, yellow; driyjtia, spot.) 



Citharichthys xanthostigma, GILBERT, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 120, Gulf of California, 

 west coast of Lower California, and Magdalena Bay. (Type, No. 44408. Coll. 

 Dr. Gilbert.) 



3051. CITHARICHTHYS STIGMJEUS, Jordan & Gilbert. 



Head 3f in length without caudal; depth 2i; dorsal 87; anal 68; scales 

 54 (pores). Body moderately deep, the 2 profiles regularly and equally 

 arched; snout short, gibbous, projecting a little beyond the outline; 

 caudal peduncle very short, not high, its length (from end of last verte- 

 bra to vertical from last anal ray) about | its height, which is $ length 

 of head; caudal fin appearing sessile. Mouth moderate, very oblique, 

 the maxillary reaching beyond front of pupil, 2f in head; teeth in a 

 single series, subequal in the two jaws, rather long, very slender and nu- 

 merous, decreasing toward angle of mouth ; about 40 teeth in the upper 

 jaw, and 30 in the lower on blind side. Eyes large, close together, sepa- 

 rated by a narrow, sharp, scaleless ridge; the upper eye largest, slightly 

 behind the lower, with considerable vertical range; diameter of upper 

 eye 3 in head. Snout and lower jaw scaleless; end of maxillary and rest 

 of head scaled. Gill rakers moderate, not strong, about 9 on anterior 

 limb. Dorsal fin beginning on the vertical from front of upper eye, the 

 first 3 rays being somewhat turned to blind side ; the fin low, the highest 

 at beginning of its posterior third, the longest ray nearly - length of head ; 

 anal spine present, very small; caudal rounded, about equalling length 

 of head ; pectoral of colored side If in head, of blind side, 2-g-. Scales 

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