684 Notes on Pacific Coast Fishes and Fisheries. [November, | 
NOTES ON PACIFIC COAST FISHES AND FISHERIES. 
BY W. N. LOCKINGTON. 
N the market of San Francisco there was recently a specimen 
of Poronotus simillimus (the pompino of this coast) that had two 
mouths, one below the other, both furnished with teeth, and in 
size and external appearance the exact counterparts of each 
other. The lower mouth was situated somewhat behind the 
upper or normal mouth, directly beneath the eye and in front of 
the interoperculum. I much regret that I was unable to obtain 
possession of the fish, which is now, I believe, preserved in 
alcohol by the watchman of the market. I cannot, therefore, say 
anything about the bony structure of the extra mouth, or about 
the peculiarities of the digestive canal. 
Anarrhichthys felis Grd., has, during the summer months, been 
frequently brought to the market of San Francisco, where it is 
sold as “ eel,” a name which is here applied to all the Blennioid 
fishes, as well as to Leurynnis paucidens and Ophidium taylori. 
Some of the dealers and fishermen, however, have given it the 
more appropriate name of “ wolf-eel.” The individuals brought 
to market are usually from four to five feet in length, but the 
species attains much larger dimensions. A specimen sent to the 
California Academy of Sciences, by Capt. Lawson, of the Coast 
Survey, and unfortunately lost through the lack of means to pre- 
serve it, measured eight feet in length; and one seven feet in 
length was noticed in the daily papers about three years since as 
an “infant sea-serpent.” One large individual that lay upon the 
stall recently, showed the effects of a battle in the want of all that 
portion of the body situated posterior to the anus. The stomach 
of a very stout-looking example, five feet long, was opened, and was 
found to be filled with the tests of Echinarachnius excentricus, the 
common cake-urchin of the coast, broken into large fragments, 
many of them considerably more than an inch across; this 
Echinoderm is extremely abundant on the bar of San Francisco 
harbor at a depth of about seven fathoms, and the denuded tests 
are among the common objects of the seashore at the Cliff 
House. 
The shark described by Ayres under the name of Notorhyn- 
chus maculatus, included by Günther under Notidanus indicus, and 
called by Gill (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Phila., 1864, 159) 
_ Notorhynchus borealis, attains considerable dimensions. An indi- 
