Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1823 



to Sitka, mostly in deep water; very abundant northward; one of the 

 largest species, (mains, mast; yero, I bear.) 



Sebastichthys maliger, JORDAN & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 322, San Francisco. 



(Type, No. 27091. Coll. Jordan & Gilbert.) 

 Sebastodes maliger, JORDAN GILBERT, Synopsis, 673, 1883; CRAMER, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., 



series 2, v/1895, 602, pi. 66, fig. 30. 



2227. SEBASTODES GILBERTI, Cramer. 



Head 2^; depth 2f to 3. D. XIII, 13; A. Ill, 6; P. 17; transverse 

 (oblique) rows of scales 40 to 42; lateral line (pores) about 39 to 42. 

 Body somewhat compressed, its width over base of pectorals nearly 2 in 

 the depth (over the shoulders). Head compressed; profile steep, nearly 

 straight; preocular, postocular, tympanic, and parietal spines and ridges 

 present, all rather delicate, the spines somewhat appressed, the parietal 

 ridges diverging backward in slight outward curves. Interorbital space 

 1 in orbit, a little concave, with a pair of low ridges and a shallow median 

 groove between them. Orbit high up, nearly circular, 4 in head, its pos- 

 terior riiil at about middle of length of head. Preorbital scarcely lobate 

 on its margin, usually with 1 short triangular spine posteriorly; sub- 

 orbital stay not visible externally ; preopercular spines all directed back- 

 ward, the 2 uppermost closer together than the others, the 2 lowermost 

 weak ; opercular spines rather small, sharp, without visible ridges ; mouth 

 nearly horizontal, the tip of the upper jaw nearly on a level with the lower 

 rim of the orbit; maxilliary 2| in head, its posterior eud reaching about 

 to vertical from posterior rim of orbit ; lower jaw very slightly projecting, 

 with a slight symphyseal knob. Teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines, the 

 bands on the latter narrow. Gill rakers rather slender, 2 to 3 in orbit, 23 

 on anterior limb of first arch. Fourth dorsal spine highest, 1|^ in head; 

 the membrane of the first dorsal very deeply incised, reaching only J of 

 the way up on the anterior side of the third, and about of the way up 

 on the fourth spine, nearly to the tip of the twelfth, and about halfway 

 up on the thirteenth spine; soft rays lower than the spines, about 1 in 

 the longest spine; caudal fin truncate, with 11 or 12 full-length rays, about 

 1 in head ; second anal spine longer and much stronger than the third, 

 2- in head, 1^ in the soft rays; pectoral fin reaching to or a little beyond 

 vent, 3 in length of body, the median rays longest, the 8 lower rays 

 unbranched and thickened, base of fin 3 in its length ; ventrals reaching 

 not quite to vent, the spine about equal to third anal spine. Scales rather 

 small, those of body, cheeks, and interorbital space all ctenoid, those of 

 breast cycloid; maxillary with minute scales, lower jaw and top of head 

 naked ; accessory scales few, some of them ctenoid. Color in formalin : 

 head blackish above; lips dusky; a dark band from front of orbit for- 

 ward along side of snout; a dark stripe on maxillary; a blackish oliva- 

 ceous band from preorbital backward and downward across preopercle ; 

 another broader band from posterior rim of orbit across preopercle and 

 lower end of stibopercle; a dark blotch on opercle; a blackish area in 

 front of dorsal and in front of first and second spines, extending with 



