Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1863 



2256. EBILEPIS ZONIFER (Lockmgton). 



Head 4 in total length with caudal; depth 3f. D. XIV-I, 15; A. II, 11; 

 lateral line 130. Head everywhere densely scaly, the only naked areas on 

 the head being the lips and the folds of the gill membranes. Scales 011 body 

 largest posteriorly, small on head and chest. Vertical fins, except the 

 spinous dorsal, covered nearly to the tips of the rays with small scales; 

 external surfaces of paired fins similarly scaly; spinous dorsal with a few 

 scales. Pectorals broad, lanceolate, not reaching the vent; fourth dorsal 

 spine longest, the others diminishing regularly to the twelfth. Eyes lat- 

 eral, shorter than snout; interorbital space broad, slightly convex; max- 

 illary nearly reaching to below middle of pupil; teeth slender, sharp, 

 recurved, in several rows on front of jaws, in a single row at sides; vomer 

 and palatines with teeth; gill rakers short; gill membranes united, 

 attached to isthmus except at posterior margin ; interorbital slightly con- 

 vex ; pectoral reaching to below base of eleventh dorsal spine ; ventrals 

 inserted a little behind pectorals. Black above, whitish below, with 4 

 broad black bars on the sides, the first over the pectorals, the second ante- 

 rior to the vent, almost encircling the body, the third near the base of the 

 anal, and the fourth encircling the caudal peduncle; a black bar at base of 

 caudal and 2 acrgss the fin ; other rins blotched and banded with light 

 and dark; ctenoid tips of the scales white. Length a foot. Monterey 

 Bay, Calfornia; 1 specimen known, the above account taken from the 

 type, (zona, zone ; fero, I bear. ) 



ILyriolepis zonifer, LOCKINQTON, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 248, Monterey (Coll. W. ST. 

 Lockmgton) ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 649, 1883. 



Family CLXXVIII. HEXAGRAMMID.E. 



(THE GREENLINGS.) 



Body elongate, covered with small scales, which are ctenoid or cycloid ; 

 head conical, scaly, the cranium without spinous ridges above; preopercle 

 usually more or less armed, sometimes with entire edges; third suborbital 

 developed as a bony stay articulating with the preopercle; mouth large, 

 with acute teeth in the jaws, and usually on vomer or palatines; nostril 

 single on each side, the posterior opening reduced to a minute pore ; gills 4, 

 a long slit behind the fourth ; gill membranes separate or united, usually 

 free from the isthmus ; branchiostegals 6 or 7 ; pseudobranchia3 well devel- 

 oped. Dorsal Jin continuous or divided, the anterior half of many slender 

 spines ; anal fin long, with or without spines ; ventrals I, 5, inserted more 

 or less behind the pectorals ; pectorals broad, usually with procurrent base, 

 the lower rays simple, more or less thickened ; lateral line present, some- 

 times several series of pores developed; vertebra numerous; pyloric caeca. 

 Carnivorous fishes, mostly of large size, living in kelp and about rocks in 

 the North Pacific ; some of them highly valued as food. Genera 6, 2 of them 

 found only in Japan. The 4 subfamilies are each very strongly marked, 

 and each might without violence be regarded as type of a distinct family. 

 Heterolepidina, Giinther, Cat., n, 90 to 95.) 



