Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1469 



1854. UMBRINA DORSALIS, Gill. 



Head 31; depth 3. D. X-I, 29 to 31. A. II, 7; orbit 4 in head; snout 

 3f; maxillary 2*; highest dorsal spine If; second anal spine 2 ; caudal 

 fin H; pectorals !; ventrals 1. Body moderately elongate; back some- 

 what arched; profile evenly convex from snout to dorsal fin ; ventral out- 

 line curved, the base of the anal fin but little more oblique than the 

 general ventral contour; caudal peduncle at the narrowest place about 2| 

 in head. Mouth oblique, rather large, lower jaw included; snout pro- 

 jecting a little beyond premaxillaries; maxillary reaching vertical from 

 the posterior border of pupil; teeth iu villiform bands, those of outer row 

 in upper jaw enlarged, stronger in front; interorbital space convex, about 

 4 in head; preorbital a little narrower than Avidth of orbit; anterior nos- 

 tril with a raised margin, the posterior part of which forms a low flap ; 

 anterior and posterior margins of the other nostril with similar flaps; 

 barbel of lower jaw thick, blunt; edge of preopercle finely serrate; gill 

 rakers short, 5 + 9 or 10. Lateral line becoming straight at a point dorsal 

 to the posterior part of the base of anal fin ; scales in lateral line 53; in the 

 series from lateral line to first dorsal spine, 9; to vent, 14 or 15. Dorsal 

 spines moderately strong, the third highest; first dorsal rays highest, the 

 others gradually becoming lower, the last less than - the height of first; 

 second anal spine very strong, not reaching tips of last rays of depressed 

 fin; upper lobe of caudal produced, acute, the lower lobe rounded; -ven- 

 trals slightly filiform at the tips. Color bluish, silvery below, dark streaks 

 along the rows of scales; dorsals rather dusky, growing darker on edges; 

 lower fins creamy reddish. Pacific coast, Cape San Lucas to Panama; 

 rare; recorded from Cape San Lucas, Mazatlan, and Panama. Here 

 described from 2 large specimens (260 and 305 mm. long), taken by Dr. 

 Gilbert at Panama. The original types, from Cape San Lucas, are but 4 

 inches long, (dorsalis, pertaining to the back, from the many dorsal 

 rays.) 



Umbrina dorsaUft, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 257, Cape San Lucas; very young; 

 (Coll. Xaiitus) ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc.TJ. S.Nat.Mus. 1882, 363; JORDAN & GIL- 

 BERT, Bull. U. S. Fish Coinm. 1882, 107; JORDAN & EIGENMANN, I. c., 423, 1889. 



591. MENTICIRRHUS, Gill. 



(KlNGFISH.) 



Menticirrhus, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 86 (alburnus). 

 ?Cirrimens, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862,17 (ophiocephalus) . 

 Umbrula, JORDAN & EIGENMANN, Review Sciseniclse, 424, 1889 (Uttoralis) . 



Body comparatively elongate, little compressed; head long, subconic, 

 the bluntish snout considerably projecting beyond the mouth; mouth 

 small, horizontal, both jaws with bands of villiform teeth, the outer teeth 

 in the upper jaw more or less enlarged; chin with a single stontish bar- 

 bel; preopercle with its membranaceous edge serrulate; gill rakers short 

 and tubercular or obsolete; dorsal spines high, slender, 10 or 11 in number 

 (13 in Cirrimens)-, second dorsal long and low; caudal fin with the lower 

 angle rounded, the upper sharp ; anal tin with a single weak spine ; no air 



