FISHES OF PUGET SOUND, 83 1 



Bay. No. 3133, Leland Stanford Jr. University Mu- 

 seum. - 



Body moderately elongate, much compressed poste- 

 riorly, about as wide as deep anteriorly, its greatest depth 

 under middle of soft dorsal where the back is elevated. 

 Flesh very firm, the body retaining its form, the skin 

 loose but not flaccid. 



Head small, the nape not produced; mouth moderate, 

 the maxillary extending to below the anterior margin of 

 orbit; jaws subequal; teeth tricuspid, arranged in series 

 which are nearly transverse on middle of jaws, becoming 

 more and more oblique towards the sides, the outermost 

 series nearly parallel with the sides of jaws ; nostrils end- 

 ing in a short wide tube; gill-opening short, extending 

 downward to about the fifth pectoral ray, its length about 

 half interorbital space; opercle ending in a flap, which 

 extends over middle of gill-opening; ventral disk slightly 

 longer than wide, its distance from tip of lower jaw once 

 and a half its length; vent equidistant from posterior edge 

 of ventral disk and front of anal; skin thick and not very 

 loose. 



Origin of spinous dorsal a little in front of the vertical 

 from vent, its distance from snout 3 in length of body; 

 anterior part of dorsal separated by a notch; origin of 

 anal about equidistant from snout and base of caudal fin; 

 some of the lower rays of pectoral produced forming a 

 notch in the lower posterior margin of fin, the fourth to 

 the tenth of the upper rays the longest, forming a rounded 

 point behind, extending slightly past the vertical from 

 snout; dorsal and anal scarcely connected with the caudal; 

 caudal long and slender, rounded behind. 



Color a uniform dark olive green, under parts white, a 

 light streak medially along back from dorsal to occiput, a 

 light spot over opercle; pectoral light at base, dusky be- 

 hind; other fins colored like the body; lips white. 



