Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1779 



on horizontal limb of outer arch, the longest equaling \ diameter of orbit; 

 preopercular spines 5, comparatively slender, all directed backward; dor- 

 sal spines very slender, the fourth the longest, or the fourth and fifth 

 equal, contained 2f to 2f in length of head ; dorsal very deeply notched, 

 the twelfth spine but as long as the longest, and barely connected at 

 base with the eleventh; soft dorsal scarcely as high as the spinous; first 

 anal spine very short, the second very slightly stronger than the third, 

 and nearly or quite as long measured from base, its length 3 in head; the 

 second spine appears much shorter than the third when the fin is declined; 

 longest soft ray of anal 2f in head ; caudal deeply notched. Anus anterior 

 in position, midway between first anal spine and base of ventrals; tips of 

 ventrals extending to or beyond it, and the pectorals extending beyond 

 tips of ventrals. Scales small, everywhere ctenoid, entirely covering head, 

 including maxillanes, mandibles, and snout, except a triangular area on 

 top of snout, beneath which lie the premaxillary spines. Color as in 

 Sebastodes goodeij dusky olive above, bright silvery on sides of head and 

 body, and below; probably with some red in life; fins unmarked; mouth 

 and gill cavities pure white, the peritoneum jet-black. Skeleton compar- 

 atively Hexible as in deep-water fishes. Length 9 inches. Most nearly 

 allied to Sebastodcs </oodei, from which it differs in the much slenderer body, 

 the longer anal spines, the black peritoneum, and the more numerous gill 

 rakers. From S. entomelas and ovalis this species differs in the obsolescence 

 of the cranial ridges, as well as in other details. (Gilbert.) This species 

 stands at one extreme of this genus as Sebastodes niyrocinctus stands at the 

 other. Neither type represents the primitive stock, and it may be, as Dr. 

 Eigeiimann has suggested, that Svbastodes mystinus is the species nearest 

 the primitive type from which the Loricati are all descended. (Named 

 for David Starr Jordan.) 



Sebastodes jordani, GILBERT, Kept. U. S. Fish Comm. 1893 (1896), 466, coast of California at 

 Albatross stations 2935, 3103, and 3114, 32 to 37 N., in 62 to 124 fathoms. 



2179. SEBASTODES GOODEI, Eigenmann & Eigenmann. 



Head2f; depth 3f; eye 3 in head. D.XIII, 14; A. Ill, 8; lateral line 

 55 (pores), about 90 transverse series above lateral line. Body very slen- 

 der, with narrow constricted caudal peduncle, sharp snout, and much pro- 

 jecting lower jaw, the latter well entering profile and furnished with 

 symphyseal knob. Eye moderate, slightly longer than snout; maxillary 

 reaching slightly beyond middle of orbit, 2^ in head ; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle less than diameter of orbit; preorbital narrow, its least width f 

 pupil, with a minute spine or none. Nasal spine obsolete. Top of head 

 smooth. Interorbital width 4J in head ; preorbital region not prominent; 

 all but the parietal ridges scaled over; preopercular spines flat, sharp, all 

 directed backward, the second and third equal, the others shorter; oper- 

 cular and suprascapular spines well developed. Gill rakers long and slen- 

 der, about 25 on anterior limb of arch, the longest % length of orbit. 

 Dorsal spines low and slender, the longest about 2f in head, the twelfth 

 i height of thirteenth, the latter about i height of soft rays, which are 



