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2. DAMALICHTHYS* Girard. 
Damalichthys Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1855, 321 ( vacca ) ; id. Pacific R. R. Survey, 
x, 181, 1859; Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1855, 321; Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. 
N. Am., 597, 1883. 
Embiotoca Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1855, 136 (sp.). 
Ditrema Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., iv, 1862 (sp.). 
Type: Damalichthys vacca Gira,r&=argyrosomus. 
2. DAMALICHTHYS ARGYROSOMUS Girard. 
(Plate xcii, fig. 1.) 
Embiotoca argyrosomus Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat Sci. Phila. 1855, vxi, 136 (San Francisco); id. 
Pacific R. R. Survey, vi, 25, 1857; id. Pacific R. R. Survey, x, 180, 1859 (San Fran- 
cisco); A. Agassiz, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vm, 127, 1861; Cooper, Nat. Wealth 
Cal. by Cronise, 489. 
Phanerodon argyrosoma Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila,., v. 14, 274 (note). 
Damalichthys argyrosomus Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1880, 456 (Puget Sound to San 
Pedro, Cal.) ; Jordan & Jouy, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1881, 11 (Puget Sound, Monterey, Santa 
Barbara, Cal. ) ; Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1881, 49 (San Pedro to Puget Sound) ; 
Bean, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1881, 265 (Puget Sound, Vancouver Island) ; Bean, Proc. U. S. N. 
M. 1883, 360 (Departure Bay, B. C.); Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 597, 1883 
(Pacific coast north to Vancouver Island); Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. A., 97, 1885 (name); 
Eigenmann & Eigenmann, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., vol. hi, 9, 1890 (San Diego); 
id. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vi, June, 1892 (San Diego, San Pedro to San Francisco, 
Puget Sound). 
Damalichthys vacca Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., v. 7, 321, 1855 (Puget Sound); Archiv 
fur Naturgeschichte, 21. Jahrg., B. 1, 318, 1855; Girard, Expl. and Surv. for R. R. Route 
to Pac., V. 10, Fishes, 182, 'pi. xxxm, 1858; Suckley, Expl. and Surv. forR. R. Route to 
Pac., v. 12, Stevens’ Report, book 2, 358, 1859; Agassiz, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., v. 
8, 127, 1861; Cooper, Nat. Wealth Cal. by Cronise, 489, 1868; Lockington, Rpt. Comm. 
Fisheries California, 30, 1879. 
Ditrema vacca Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., iv, 246, 1862 ( San Francisco). 
Habitat: Pacific coast, from San Diego to Vancouver Island. 
This species is not uncommon at San Diego and is quite abundant in the San 
Francisco markets. 
Body ovate, dorsal and ventral profile nearly equally curved, tapering abruptly 
into a long slender caudal peduncle. Head rather large, occipital region little 
depressed ; lower jaw included; maxillary reaching nearly to the front of the orbit. 
Bye large, a little longer than the snout. Teeth few, conical, bluntish, in one series. 
Gill-rakers slender, 7 +13. Spines of dorsal fin stout, shorter than longest rays. Pec- 
torals long, reaching beyond the ventrals. Color soiled white, with silvery luster ; 
three or four obscure dusky bars, most distinct in the young : fins nearly plain, dusky. 
* fiau.a.Auj, calf; i\ti if, fish, in allusion to its viviparity. 
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