1760 Bulletin //, United States National Museum. 



688. SEBASTES, Cuvier. 



( ROSE-FISHES.) 



Sebastes, CUVIER, R6gne Animal, Ed. 2, Vol.ii, 166, 1829 (norvegica=marinus) . 

 Ewebastes, SAUVAGE, Nouv. Archives Mus. Paris (2) I, 1878, 1421 (norvegicu*). 



Body oblong, compressed. Head large, scaly above and on sides ; cra- 

 nial ridges well developed. Mouth terminal, very broad, oblique, the 

 broad short maxillary extending to below the eye; lower jaw projecting, 

 with a bony knob at the symphysis, fitting into a rostral notch ; villiform 

 teeth on jaws, vomer and palatines. Eye very large, close to upper pro- 

 file; preopercle with 5 diverging spines, opercle with 2; suprascapular 

 spines strong; gill rakers long, slender. Scales small, ctenoid, irregularly 

 arranged; no dermal flaps. Dorsal fin continuous, very long, the spinous 

 part much longer than the soft part, of 15 strong spines ; anal spines 3, 

 strong; caudal emarginate; pectorals long, narrow. Branchiostegals 7. 

 Vertebrae 12 + 19 31. Coloration mostly red. Ovoviviparous. One 

 species known, in the North Atlantic, (tfefiadros, magnificent.) 



2174. SEBASTES MABINUS (Linnaeus). 



(KOSEFISi; KEDFISH; SNAPPER; HEMDURGAN.) 



Head 3; depth 2f. D. XV, 13; A. 111,7; lateral line 40 (tubes); scales 

 about 85. Body ovate ; back elevated, the ventral outline straightish ; top 

 of head evenly scaled; interorbital space with 2 low ridges, between 

 which it is concave; nasal spines present; cranial ridges moderate, rather 

 low and sharp, the spines sharp; preocular, supraocular, postocular, 

 tympanic, and parietal ridges present, the latter with the tips abruptly 

 divergent and with parietal and nuchal spines ; suprascapular spines very 

 sharp and prominent ; opercular spines long and sharp ; subopercular spine 

 prominent; preopercular spines slender and sharp, the second longest; 

 suborbital stay close under orbit, not reaching preopercle; preorbital nar- 

 row, with 2 spines. Eye exceedingly large, 3 in head, more than twice as 

 wide as interorbital space. Mouth very large, oblique; maxillary very 

 broad, reaching middle of eye, its length 2 in head; premaxillaries on 

 level of middle of pupil; tip of lower jaw much projecting, with a con- 

 spicuous, pointed symphyseal knob; mandible and maxillary scaly; 

 pseudobranchise very large; gill rakers long, stiff and strong. Dorsal 

 spines sharp, the longest about as long as eye, the fin deeply emarginate, the 

 soft rays not very high, higher than the spines ; caudal narrow, moderately 

 forked; anal spines moderate, graduated, the second a little shorter than 

 eye; pectoral rather long, reaching vent, its base narrow, some of the 

 upper rays divided; ventral reaching to vent. Scales small, irregular, not 

 strongly ctenoid. Orange red, nearly uniform, sometimes a dusky oper- 

 cular blotch, and about 5 vague dusky bars on the back; peritoneum 

 brownish. Length 18 inches. North Atlantic, abundant on both coasts, 

 especially northward; recorded from the north and west coasts of Europe 

 to the British Channel, rare south of the Faroe Islands; Arctic Ocean, 

 Spitzbergen; Iceland, Greenland; a shore fish as far south as Maine, south- 

 ward in deeper waters, as far as off coast of middle New Jersey. Accord- 



