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19.2 m depth, 24 April 2012, D. W. Wagman and T. 
N. Frierson; OS 18886, 3, 223-300 mm SL, 1.3 km 
west of southern end of Lost Creek State Park, OR, 
44°32'35.95"N, 124°5'33.61"W, 12.8 m depth, 24 April 
2012, D. W. Wagman and T. N. Frierson; OS 18887, 
3, 225-267 mm SL, 1.3 km west of south end of Lost 
Creek State Park, OR, 44°32'36. 10"N, 124°5'33.40"W, 
15.5 m depth, 20 April 2012, D. W. Wagman and T. 
N. Frierson; OS 18891, 3, 275-321 mm SL, 1.2 km 
west of north end of Lost Creek State Park, OR, 
44°33'26.93"N, 124°5'18.17"W, 14.1 m depth, 20 April 
2012, D. W. Wagman and T. N. Frierson; OS 18892, 1, 
312 mm SL, 1.4 km west of north end of Lost Creek 
State Park, OR, 44°33'34.63"N, 124°5'45.02"W, 14.5 
m depth, 8 May 2012, D. W. Wagman and T. N. Fri- 
erson; OS 18894, 2, 215-234 mm SL, 1.7 km north- 
west of Lost Creek State Park, OR, 44°33'51.12"N, 
124°5 / 42.18"W, 14.3 m depth, 8 May 2012, D. W. Wag- 
man and T. N. Frierson; OS 18896, 1, 295 mm SL, 1.5 
km west of Lost Creek State Park, OR, 44°33'13.26"N, 
124°5'38.54"W, 13.5 m depth, 8 May 2012, D. W. Wag- 
man and T. N. Frierson; OS 18898, 1, 208 mm SL, 2.8 
km west off south end of South Beach State Park, OR, 
44°33'38.83"N, 124°6'36.47"W, 28.9 m depth, 15 May 
2012, D. W. Wagman and T. N. Frierson; OS 18899, 1, 
227 mm SL, 3.3 km west of south end of South Beach 
State Park, OR, 44°35'42.79"N, 124°6'35.82"W, 28.9 m 
depth, 15 May 2012, D. W. Wagman and T. N. Frierson 
OS 18900, 267 mm SL, 1.8 km west of Seal Rock, OR, 
44°29'49.38"N, 124°6'30.48"W, 20.9 m depth, 20 April 
2012, D. W. Wagman and T. N. Frierson; USNM 26947, 
1, 163 mm SL, Santa Barbara, CA, 1880, D. S. Jor- 
dan; USNM 47154, 1, 270 mm SL, Cortez Banks, off 
Southern California, 37 m depth, 1889, Albatross ex- 
pedition; USNM 63545, 1, 119 mm SL, Sausalito, CA, 
date unknown, Albatross', USNM 104771, 1, 161 mm 
SL, Point Pinos, Monterey, CA, 5 February 1923, C. L. 
Hubbs. UW 114028, 1, 210 mm SL, Scripps Canyon, 
La Jolla, CA, 32°49'59.88"N, 117°15'0"W, 14 November 
2000, collector unknown. 
Designation of lectotype 
The original description by Jordan and Gilbert (1881) 
was published well before the establishment of the 
convention of holotype and paratypes designations. 
However, shortly after the original description, Jor- 
dan and Jouy (1881) published a listing of type ma- 
terial at the USNM for Sebastichthys mystinus. The 
type material listed includes USNM 26971 and 27031 
from Monterey, California, and USNM 27085 from San 
Francisco, California, without any indication of the 
number of specimens in each lot. However, 10 syn- 
types are known to exist, including 5 in USNM: 26971 
(1), 27031 (1), 27085 (3, of which 1 is an osteological 
preparation). In addition, there is 1 in each of 5 col- 
lections in Europe: MNHN A-3286 (ex-USNM 27085), 
MSNG 8327 (ex-USNM 26971), MTD F 174 (ex-US- 
NM 27085, specimen desiccated), RMNH-PISC 11530 
(ex-USNM 26971), and ZMUC P791064 (ex-USNM 
27031). An eleventh syntype was sent to Philadelphia 
(ANSP 12119, ex-USNM 27085), but it is currently 
missing (Bohlke, 1984; Sabaj Perez 3 ). USNM 207085 
was selected as the lectotype of S. mystinus because 
it is in the best condition of the original type mate- 
rial and has obvious blotched pigmentation (Fig. 11). 
One of the 10 extant syntypes of S. mystinus, USNM 
27031, does not conform to the description of S. mys- 
tinus, clearly does not match the rest of the type se- 
ries or the published illustration of this specimen 
(Jordan and Evermann, 1900: pi. 270, fig. 657; listed 
as fig. 656 in the index), and is a different species of 
Sebastes (see the Remarks section). We designate the 
remaining specimens in the syntype series, with the 
exceptions of the misidentified USNM 27031 and the 
missing ANSP 12119, as paralectotypes. 
Diagnosis 
A species of Sebastes differentiated from all congeners 
with the exceptions of S. ciliatus, S. melanops, and 
S. diaconus by possessing dark gray, blue, brown, or 
black body coloration, scales covering the mandible, 
and weak or absent head spination. Sebastes mystinus 
is distinguished from S. ciliatus and S. melanops by 
the maxilla not extending beyond the posterior mar- 
gin of pupil when the mouth is closed. It is further 
distinguished from S. ciliatus by 4 bars of dark pig- 
mentation extending across the head and nape versus 
an almost uniformly dark head coloration with 2 faint 
bars below orbit in S. ciliatus, 26-27 vertebrae versus 
3 Sabaj Perez, M. 2013. Personal commun. Department of Ich- 
thyology, The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA 
19103. ' 
