Jordan and Evcrmann. Fishes of North America. 1937 



2309. CALYCILEPIDOTUS SPINOSUS, Ayres. 



Head 2f; depth 5. D. Ill, VIII, 19; A. 15; scales 60; eye 4 in head ; 

 maxillary 2^; fourth dorsal spine 4; pectoral 1; ventral 2; caudal 1{*. 

 Body rather elongate, depressed ; head broad, somewhat concave between 

 1lie occipital ridges; 2 sharp radiating ridges behind upper posterior 

 margin of each orbit, somewhat broken np into irregular spines; posterior 

 part of snpraorbital rim broken np into spines; top of head covered with 

 loose skin, and with thick-set mucous tubes; interorbital space narrow, 

 concave, .1 diameter of eye; preopercle with 2 strong, shortish, diverging 

 spines above; llesliy slips above opercle, near upper posterior part of eye, 

 and at occiput; a long ileshy slip on maxillary, and 4 on lower jaw; many 

 scales on sides with small Haps; skin, where not scaly, thin and lax; dor- 

 sal band of scales with about 7 rows at its widest part, anteriorly much 

 wider than the space between it and the lateral band; isthmus rather 

 broad, the membranes not forming a fold across it; dorsal tins consid- 

 erably connected, spines very low, the highest about the height of the 

 soft rays; pectorals broad, shortish, about reaching vent; distance from 

 spinons dorsal to snout greater than length of pectoral. Color brown, 

 mottled and obscurely barred, often tinged with red; top of head usually 

 with brick red; lins all. except ventrals, mottled with blackish and red- 

 dish ; skin joining bones of jaws unspotted; belly whitish, immaculate. 

 Here described from a specimen from Monterey Hay, California, 10 inches 

 in length. Coast of California, in rather deep water; not common; known 

 only from about Monterey and San Francisco, (spinosus, spiny.) 



Cdli/cilepidotita spinosii-s, AYRES, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., I, 1855, 76, San Francisco. 

 llnnlh'pidotus spinosus, GiRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1856, 134 ; GIRARD, U. S. Pac. R. 

 It. Surv., x, Fish., 68, 1858; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 715. 



727. ENOPHRYS, Swainson. 

 (STONE SCULPINS.) 



Enophrys, SWAINSON, Ciasa'n Fishes, 11,271,1839 (claviger). 

 Aspicottus, GIRARD, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1854, 130 (bison). 

 Olypeocottus, AYRES, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1854, 12 (robustus). 



Body short and thick, depressed anteriorly. Head very large, mailed 

 above with rugose, bony plates ; a series of large, rough, bony plates along 

 lateral line; no scales. Teeth in vil'liform bands in jaws and on vomer, 

 none on palatines; preopercle with strong, straight spines; suborbital 

 stay broad, externally bony; gill membranes joined to the isthmus, not 

 forming a fold across it; a slit behind fourth gill. Dorsal fins separate, 

 the anterior short, not notched; anal short. Intestinal canal elongate. 

 Herbivorous, feeding chiefly on algae. (r, on; ofipvg, eyebrow.) 



ASPICOTTGS (ao-Trts, shield ; Cottus): 



a. Preopercular spiiie about head, reaching end of opercle or a little heyond; bony 

 plates of side without keel or spine. BISON, 2310. 



ENOPHRYS : 



aa. Preopercular spine very long, reaching middle of spinous dorsal ; bony plates of 

 sides each with a serrated keel or spine. CLAVIGER, 2311. 



