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Dessa iiro spetsiga och temligen langa, ungefar f af hufvudets liingcl, och deras bakatlagda spetsar 
na till analfenans bdrjan; bukfenorna iiro betydligt kortare ocb innehalla 2 ggr. 1 bufvudet. 
Ofre kant'en af ryggfenans taggstraliga del svart, och vid basen af den mjukstraliga. en smal linie 
af sarnina farg. Brdstfenorna gulaktiga, bukfenorna i spetsen svarta, den forsta stralen hvit med en 
svart flack vid basen. Praeoperculum bar strax bakom underkakeus ledgang en temligen liten, svart 
flack ocb bakom denna en nagot stdrre af samma farg. 
Endast ett exempl, 1. 18 cm. 
9. EMBIOTOCA* Agassiz. 
Embiotoca Agassiz, Amer. Journ. Science and Art (2), v. 16, 386, Nov., 1853. 
Embioloca Agassiz, Amer. Journ. Science and Art, v. 17, 366, May, 1854. 
Holconotus + Gibbons, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., v. 7, 122, July, 1854 ( Agassizii = lateralis). 
Embiotoca Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., v. 7, 320, Apr. 1855; v. 8, p. 136 (sine desc.), 
1856. 
Embiotoca A, Agassiz, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., v. 8, 126 (133), 1861. 
Ditrema Gunther, 1862 (sp.). 
Ditrema Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 (sp.). 
Type : Embiotoca jacksoni Agassiz. 
12. EMBIOTOCA JACKSONI Agassiz. 
Embiotoca jacksoni Agassiz, Am. Journ. Sci. and Art (2), v. 16, 387, 1853; Archiv fur Nat- 
urgescbicbte, 20. Jahrg., B. 1, 157, 1854; Agassiz, Am. Journ. Sci. and Art (2), v. 17, 
366, 1854; Archiv fur Naturgescbichte, 21. Jahrg., B. 1, 32, 1855; Girard, Proc. Acad. 
Nat. Sci. Phila., v. 7, 151, 1854; Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., v. 7, 320, 1855; 
Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 21. Jahrg., B. 1, 345, 1855; Girard, Expl. and Surv. for 
R. R. Route to Pac., v. 10, Fishes, 168, pi. xxvii, xxvm, and xxvi, f. 3 and 4, 1855 
(Tomales Bay, San Francisco); A. Agassiz, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., v. 8, 126, 1862; 
Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. [v. 14], 275, 1862 (California); Cooper, Nat. Wealth 
Cal. by Cronise, 489, 1868; Rosa Smith, A List of the Fishes of San Diego, Cal., 1880, 
Nov.; Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1880, 28 (San Diego, Cal.); E. & E., Ann. 
N. Y. Acad. Sci., vi, June, 1892 (San Diego to Puget Sounds 
Ditrema jacksoni Giinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mua., iv, 245, 1862 (San Francisco); Jordan & Gil- 
bert, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1880, 456 (Puget Sound to San Diego, Cal.); Jordan & Jouy, 
Proc. U. S. N. M. 1881, 11 (Monterey, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Wilmington, Santa 
Catalina Island, California); Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1881, 50 (Puget Sound 
to San Diego, Cal.); Bean, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1881, 265 (Puget Sound); Jordan & Gil- 
bert, Syn. Fish. N. Am., 595, 1883 (Pacific Coast U. S.); Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. Am., 96, 
1885; Rosa Smith, West Am. Scientist, June, 1885; Eigenmaun, Am. Nat., March, 1889 
(Development). 
Holconotus fuliginosus Gibbons, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., v. 7, 123, 1854; Archiv fur Nat- 
urgeschichte, 21. Jahrg., B. 1, p. 334. 
Embiotoca cassidyi Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., v. 7, 151, 1854; Girard, Proc. Acad. 
Nat. Sci. Phila., v. 7, 320; Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 21. Jahrg., B. 1, 346, 1855; Gir- 
ard, Expl. and Surv. for R. R. Route to Pac., v. 10, Fishes, 171, pis. xxix and xxvi, f. 12, 
1859 (San Diego). 
Embiotoca webbi Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., v. 7, 320, 1854 ; Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 
21. Jahrg., B. 1, 346, 1855; Girard, Expl. and Surv. for R. R. Route to Pac., v. 10, Fishes, 
173, pi. xxx, 1859 (San Diego). 
Habitat: San Diego to Puget Sound. 
* Embiotoca: ’E/ifiloc, living, and t'okoc , bringing forth; having reference to the viviparity which 
the species of the genus share with all the other members of the family. 
tThe name Holconotus was invented by Gibbons independently, and is not synonymous with the 
Holconotus of Agassiz. 
