Jordan and Ever mann. Fishes of North America. 1177 



rakers 3 + 10 or 11, short, the longest barely longer than pupil. Body 

 moderately elongate, compressed. Head low, large, profile anteriorly a 

 little convex, depressed before eye. Mouth moderate, the lower jaw very 

 prominent; canines in both jaws rather strong. Nostrils well separated, 

 subequal. Preopercle scarcely notched, the angle not salient ; the teeth 

 at angle scarcely enlarged. First dorsal low, scarcely notched, the fourth 

 spine not elongate. Soft dorsal moderate, rounded : caudal truncate or 

 very slightly rounded, becoming concave with age; anal high, anteriorly 

 rounded, not falcate but with a sharp angle, its posterior border not 

 incised ; second anal spine shorter than third, 6 in head. Pectorals mod- 

 erate; ventrals shortish. Color olive gray, blackish above, with obscure 

 clouds of darker olive in the form of diffuse dark blotches, these oblong, 

 quadrate, and arranged in 4 series; lower parts pale olive; sides of head 

 with wavy blackish streaks; a black mustache behind maxillary; lower 

 side of head clouded ; lower lip greenish ; inside of mouth pale; pectorals 

 reddish green, without pale edge ; other fins blackish, the soft dorsal and 

 caudal narrowly edged with whitish ; a little dull red on lower edge of 

 anal and caudal.* Length 2 to 3 feet. Gulf of California; common in 

 bays and sheltered waters; not seen about rocks; here described from 

 specimens from Mazatlan ; a food-fish of importance at Guaymas and 

 Mazatlan. (Named for David Starr Jordan.) 



Epinephelus jordani, JENKINS & EVERMANN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.. 1888, 140, Guaymas, (Type, 



No. 39628. Coll. Jenkins & Evermann); BOULENGER,! Cat., i, 263. 

 Mycteroperca jordani, JORDAN & EIGENMANN, L c., 371, 1890; EVERMANN & JENKINS, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., 1891, 143, pi. i, fig. 2. 



1566. MYCTEROPERCA MICROLEPIS (Goode & Bean). 

 (GAG; AGUAJ!.) 



Head 2f ; depth 3 ; eye moderate, 6| in head (young). D. XI, 16 to 19 ; 

 A. Ill, 11 ; scales 24-140 to 145-50 to 60, pores 88 to 95. Body compara- 

 tively elongate, compressed, its greatest width 2 in greatest depth. 



* The following is the original description of this species, slightly condensed: Head 2.6 in 

 body to base of caudal (3.1 in total); depth 3.6 in body; depth of caudal peduncle 8.8; dorsal 

 XI, 17; anal III, 11; scales very small, crowded, about 20-160-40. Body comparatively elongate, 

 compressed. Head long, lower jaw protruding, maxillary extending but slightly beyond the eye 

 in the smaller specimens and not at all in the larger ones; eye 7.2 in head, the interorbital 

 space 6 in head. Preopercle slightly emarginate above the angle and on lower limb below the 

 angle; the serrce above the angle very fine, at the angle stronger, the lower limb entire. Nos- 

 trils not very near together. Distance between them 8 in longer diameter of eye; the anterior 

 circular, with a flap; posterior elliptical and not more than twice the diameter of the anterior. 

 Gill rakers of anterior arch rather short, the longest about 2 in eye; about 9 developed and 2 

 rudimentary ones on lower branch, one in the angle, 2 well developed on upper branch, with a 

 few others rudimentary. Teeth on lower jaw in about 2 series, laterally strong; on upper jaw- 

 several strong teeth intermingled with many small ones; two prominent canines in each jaw. 

 Caudal fin very slightly lunate, the outer rays scarcely longer than inner, 2 in head; pectorals 

 reaching beyond the tip of ventrals, 5 in body and 1.9 in head; ventral fin shorter than tin- 

 pectoral, 6.25 in the body, its spine 4 in head; the first 3 spines of the dorsal graduated, the first 

 8.8, the second 4.26, the third 3.3, in head; the tenth spine 4, and the eleventh 3.8, in lic.nl. 

 The longest soft ray, the sixth, 2.3 in head; origin of dorsal a little less than length of head 

 from tip of snout; anal spines graduated, the first 14.4, the second 64, the third 5.2, in head, 

 the fin evenly rounded, the longest soft ray 2.3, and the last 4.8, in head. Color in alcohol, much 

 as in E. bonaci, Poey, brown, with irregular darker mottlings of considerable size, but varying 

 much; belly paler; dorsal and anal fins of the general color of the body, the anal having the 

 lower edge pale, the outer margin not evidently darker; ventrals black with the tip white; pec- 

 torals paler. 



f By error credited by Dr. Boulenger to Jordan & Evermann, instead of to Jenkins & Evermann. 



