1808 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 



2210. SEBASTODES ROSACEUS (Girard). 



(CORSAIR.) 



Head2f ; depth 3; eye very large, 3 in head. D. XIII, 13; A. Ill, 6; 

 lateral line 48. Body oblong, little elevated ; head rather pointed ; mouth 

 moderate, the jaws about equal, the lower with a small knob; maxillary 

 not reaching posterior border of eye, its length 2 in head ; premaxillaries 

 below the orbit. Maxillary and preorbital partly scaled ; mandible and 

 snout naked; preopereular spines short. Gill rakers moderate, longer 

 than in S. constellatus, not clavate. Scales moderate, the accessory ones 

 numerous. Dorsal spines rather low and strong, the fourth f the length 

 of the head, about as high as the soft rays, the fin rather deeply emargi- 

 nate; caudal slightly notched; anal rather low, with the second spine 

 curved, 2 in head, much longer and stronger than third, shorter than 

 the soft rays ; pectoral fins moderate, reaching beyond tips of ventrals, 

 past the vent, 3 in body. Bones of skull thin ; preocular, supraocular, 

 postocular, tympanic, and parietal spines present, slender, sharp, the 

 ridges thin, rather high, parietal bones well separated; interorbital space 

 narrow, 5j- in base of skull, concave, with 2 small ridges over mucous 

 canals; ventral process of basisphenoid well developed; mesethmoid 

 processes compressed, strongly elevated (at an angle of about 45) ; base 

 of skull very nearly straight. Bright orange red, the young strongly 

 tinged or mottled with golden yellow ; back with 4 pale spots, arranged 

 precisely as in S. constellatus, rhodochloris, and clilorostictus; these always 

 very distinct, of a rose-pink color, or sometimes almost white ; the darker 

 border around them is of a deep purple or blood color, never greenish ; fins 

 rosy, mottled with orange ; head with radiating stripes of orange and 

 rosy ; nape with alternating bars of yellowish and deep red, the colors 

 blending; no decided green, and no small pink spots anywhere; perito- 

 neum blackish. Length 12 inches. Coast of California, San Diego to 

 San Francisco, in rather deep water ; the most abundant of the red species, 

 and one of the smallest; coloration very brilliant, (rosaceus, rosy.) 



Sebastes rosaceus, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, 1854, 146, and in U. S. Pac. R. E. 



Surv.,x, Fishes, 78, pi. 21, 1858 (poor figure, from a specimen in bad condition), San 



Diego ; San Francisco (Coll. A. Cassidy and Dr. Newberry) ; GUNTHER, Cat., n, 98. 

 Sebastes helvomaculatus, AYRKS, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., n, 1859, 26, f. 8, San Francisco. (Coll. 



W.O.Ayres.) 

 Sebastode* rosaceus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 666, 1883; CRAMER, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., 



series 2, v, 1895, 598, pi. 63, fig. 20. 



2211. SEBASTODES AYBESII, Gilbert & Cramer. 



Head 2; depth 2f . D. XIII, 13; A. Ill, 6; lateral line (pores) 42 to 44; 

 transverse rows of scales 43. Very closely related to Scbastodes rosaceus, 

 but the supraorbital ridge lower, thicker, and without spine. Body oblong, 



nr a"* 1 of .f 1 ! 11 opening; head below orbit pink, with bronze bar through cheek; 

 pmk with a median bronze streak; membranes of maxillaries chiefly bronze; 



aCe ^ J 86 i 

 owish; dorsal 



br ) 



n ^ J 86 i^Tl 5 breast Jewish pink, abdomen nearly white; area 

 f anal yellowish; dorsal light bluish pink, clouded with bronze, the rays of all the 

 membr anes bronze. Length about 11 inches. Coronado Islands. 



