Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2111 



Liparis callyodon, GUNTHER, Cat., in, 162, 1861; BEAN, Proc.TJ. S. Nat.Mus. 1881, 247, 271; 

 JORDAN & GILBERT,* Synopsis, 743, ]883. 



2445. NEOLIPARIS MUCOSUS (Ayres). 



Head 4 in length; depth 4^. D. VI, 26; A. 26; pectoral 29; caudal 12; 

 eye 7 in head; snout 3; ventral disk 1| ; pectoral If; longest dorsal 

 ray 2; highest anal ray 2; caudal 1J. Body not greatly elongate, rather 

 robust, compressed posteriorly, holding its width well past middle of 

 body; head short and thick, broader than body, longer than broad, its 

 length If times its depth; mouth small, truncate, its cleft almost entirely 

 anterior, scarcely extending laterally; end of maxillary buried under the 

 skin, barely reaching to eye; nostrils not ending in tubes; lower jaw 

 slightly the shorter; teeth sharp, tricuspid, the middle cusp much the 

 highest and longest, arranged in 9 oblique series in each jaw, becoming 

 more and more oblique toward the sides; interorbital space moderately 

 wide, about 3 in head, a little convex ; gill slit not extending below upper 

 edge of pectoral, its length about 1-J- times eye and 3 in ventral disk. Pec- 

 toral broadly rounded when spread, its notch comparatively very shallow, 

 its tip reaching past vent but not to notch in dorsal; ventral disk large, 

 slightly longer than broad, its posterior margin almost midway between 

 its anterior and front of anal, its anterior margin \ its length from 

 chin; dorsal with a shallow notch; origin of fin over posterior margin of 

 ventral disk, its longest rays in its posterior half; origin of anal a little 

 nearer snout than base of caudal, the last 4 or 5 rays rapidly shortened, 

 making the fin truncate behind ; dorsal and anal scarcely joined to caudal ; 

 caudal long and slender, rounded behind. Color olive brown, light below ; 

 indistinctly mottled ; dorsal and anal darker at their margins; pectorals 

 uniform dark brown; caudal light, with indistinct cross lines; lips dark. 

 Coast of California. Here described from the only specimen known to 

 us, 5 inches in length, from near San Francisco. It is now in the collec- 

 tion of the California Academy of Sciences (No. 360). Collected by H. D. 

 Dunn, off San Francisco, (mucosus, slimy.) 



Liparis mucosusj AYRES, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., 1, 1855, 24, San Francisco (Coll. W. O. Ayres) ; 

 GUNTHER, Cat., in, 559, 1861 ; STEINDACHNER, Ichth. Beitr., in, 54, 1875; JORDAN & GIL- 

 BERT, Synopsis, 744, 1883 ; description copied from STEINDACHNER. 



Liparis mucosus, GARMAN, Discoboli, 52, 1892, with plates, figures and description in part; 

 account of the gill openings apparently taken from Liparis flora*. 



Neoliparis mucosus, JORDAN & STARES, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 832, pi. xcv. 



2446. NEOLIPARIS FLORAE, Jordan & Starks. 



Head 3f in length of body; depth at ventral disk 5; depth under mid- 

 dle of soft dorsal 4. D. VI, 27; A. 21 to 23; caudal 15; pectoral 30; 



between the branchiostegals ; dorsal commencing a little behind the gill opening. Yel- 

 lowish brown above; skin every where with brown dots; a silvery streak from the upper 

 jaw through the eye and opercles. Kamchatka; common along the shores and about the 

 (Aleutian) Islands. (Pallas.) 



* Described from a small specimen with injured fins lately reexamined by us, in the 

 collection of the Alaska Commercial Company, Unalaska. (Coll. A. Greenebaum.) 



t The description of Ayres is not very full and might apply almost equally well to 

 Liparis fl or ce. The account of the head (4 in length) and the eye (nearly 6 in head) point 

 rather to the present species as does also the description of the lax skin. Steindachner's 

 account seems also to refer to the present species, although few of the really distinctive 

 characters are mentioned by him. 



