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1103. AULORHYNCHUS FLAVIDUS, Gill. 



Head 4; depth 16. D. XXV-9; A. 1, 9; V. I, 4. Gill rakers slender. Dorsal 

 spines minute, much shorter than pupil. Caudal peduncle longer than 

 head. Tawny, with about 20 darker cross blotches on the back ; minutely 

 punctulate above; opercula and antepectoral region with bright golden 

 or coppery luster, bordered above by a blackish baud. Coast of Cali- 

 fornia from San Nicolas Island and Monterey northward to Sitka, Alaska ; 

 rather rare ; a curious little fish, like a stickleback in structure, but with 

 the produced snout of Fistularia. (flavidus. yellowish.) 



Aulorhynchusflavidus, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci.Phila., 1861, 169, Coast of Washington. (Coll. 



Dr. Kennerly); STEINDACHNER, Ichth. Beitr., v, 153, 1876; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 



391, 1883. 

 Auliscops spinescens, PETERS, Berliner Monatsber., 570, 1866. 



Family C. AULOSTOMIDJE. 

 (THE TRUMPET-FISHES.) 



Body compressed, elongate, covered with small ctenoid scales. Lateral 

 line continuous. Head long; mouth small, at the end of a long, com- 

 pressed tube. Lower jaw prominent, with a barbel at the symphysis. 

 Premaxillary feeble, not protractile ; maxillary broad, triangular, with a 

 supplemental bone. Teeth minute, in bands, on lower jaw and vomer. 

 Branchiostegals 4. Gills 4, a slit behind the fourth. Pseudobranchise 

 well developed. Gill rakers obsolete. Gill membranes separate, free from 

 the isthmus. Air bladder large. Spinous dorsal present, of 8-12 very 

 slender free spines; soft dorsal and anal rather long, similar, posterior, 

 with 23 to 28 rays each; caudal small, rhombic, the middle rays longest, 

 but not produced into a filament ; ventrals abdominal, of 6 rays, all artic- 

 ulated; pectorals broad, rounded, the space in front of them scaly. First 

 four vertebrae elongated. Two pyloric cceca. A single genus, with two 

 species, found in tropical seas. (Fistularildce, part, genus Aulostoma, Giin- 

 ther, Cat., m, 535-538, 1861.) 



341. AULOSTOMUS, Lacepede. 



Aulosiomus, LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 357, 1803, (chinensis). 

 Aulostoma, SCHLEGEL, Fauna Japonica, 320, 1842; change of spelling. 

 Polypterichthys, BLEEKER, Ternate n, 608, (valentini = chinensis). 

 Solenostomm, GRONOW, Cat. Fishes, Ed. Gray, 146, 1854, (chinensis). 



Characters of the genus included above. (avAdf, tube; aro^a, mouth.) 



a. Base of soft dorsal and anal not black; each fin with a black band parallel with its base. 



b. Eye 2 to 2% in postorbital part of head; ground color reddish; silvery lateral streaks 



not all below lateral line. MACULATUS, 1104. 



bb. Eye 3% in postorbital part of head; groundcolor brown; lateral silvery streaks all 



below the lateral line. CINEREUS, 1105. 



1104. AULOSTOMUS MACULATUS, Valenciennes. 

 (TROMPETERO.) 



Head 3; eye 2 to 2| in postorbital part of head. D. X-23; A. 25; 

 V. 6. Lower jaw prominent, keeled, with a small barbel at the symphysis ; 



