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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
13. ABEONA* Girard. 
Cymatogaster Gibbons, Daily Placer Times and Transcript, May 18, 1854 (sp.). 
Micrometrus Gibbons, 1. c.,May 30, 1854 (sp.); A. Agassiz, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1861, 
128 and 133 (restricted to minima). 
Abeona Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 1855, 322 ( trowbridgii ). 
Type: Abeona troivbridgii= A. minima Gibbons. 
ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES OF ABEONA. 
a. Color greenish above with bluish reflections, thickly dusted with black dots; an irregular longi- 
tudinal black band along axis of body, and two vertical dark bars downward from base of 
dorsal fin on which they appear as blotches; sides often with much light yellow; axil of pec- 
torals black.” (Jordan & Gilbert.) Body ovate, dorsal and ventral outlines nearly evenly 
curved; mouth small, jaws about equal, the maxillary reaching about half the distance to the 
front of orbit. Scales of cheeks in two and a half rows. Dorsal fin high, the last spine about 
as long as the first soft ray ; pectorals not reaching as far as ventrals. D. ix, 44; A. m, 17; 
scales, 4-45-12; head, 3J-; depth, 2 Minima, 19. 
aa. Color bluish black above, becoming lighter on the sides and silvery below. Opercles and lower 
half of sides punctate with black dots and shaded with light orange, the latter more intense on 
the centers of the scales and forming a diffuse lateral band ; abroad, grayish streak backwards 
from pectorals to opposite origin of anal, this streak without orange points; young speci- 
mens with the bright lateral shades more distinct, and rosy instead of orange ; fins marked 
with more or less blackish, the anal with some yellowish, a conspicuous black triangular blotch 
in the axil of the pectoral. Body elongate, with a very long and rather thick caudal peduncle. 
Head transversely very convex above and with a blunt snout. Mouth small, oblique; maxillary 
reaching but two-thirds the distance to front of orbit; caudal forked for half its length. 
Scales on cheek in three distinct series. Head, 4; depth, 2|. D. ix, 17; A. ill, 20; lat. 1., 45. (Jor- 
dan & Gilbert. ) Aurora, 20. 
19. ABEONA MINIMA Gibbons. 
Cymatogaster minimus Gibbons, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci., in Daily Placer Times aud Tran- 
script, May 18, 1854; id., Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v. 7, 106, 1854. 
Micrometrus minimus Gibbons, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci., in Daily Placer Times and Transcript, 
May 30, 1854; id., Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v. 7, 125, 1854; Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 
21. Jahrg., B, 1, 339, 1855; A. Agassiz' Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., v. 8, 129, 1861. 
Ditrema minima Gunther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mas., iv,- 249, 1862 (San Francisco). 
Abeona minima Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 275 (footnote); Cooper, Nat. Wealth 
Cal. by Cronise, 489; Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. N. M. 1880, 28 (San Diego, Cal.); 
Rosa Smith; A list of the Fishes of San Diego, Cal., November, 1880; Jordan & Gilbert, 
Proc. U. S. N. M. 1880, 456 (San Francisco to San Diego, Cal.); Jordan & Jouy, Proc. 
U. S.N. M. 1881, 10 (Monterey, Santa. Barbara, and San Diego, Cal.); Jordan & Gilbert, 
Proc. U. S. N. M. 1881, 51 (Tomales to San Diego, Cal.); Jordan &. Gilbert, Syn. Fish. 
N. Am., 587, 1883 (Pacific Coast of the United States); Rosa Smith, West. Am. Scientist 
June, 1885; Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. Am., 96, 1885; Eigenmann & Eigenmann, Ann. N. Y. 
Acad. Sci., vi, June, 1892 (San Diego to San Francisco). 
Holconotus trowbridgii Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., v. 7, 152, 1854 
Abeona trowbridgii Girard, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v. 7, 322; Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 
21. Jahrg., B. 1, 349, 1855; Expl. and Surv. for R. R. Route to Pacifie, v. 10, Fishes, 
186, pi. xxxiv, f. 6-10. 
Habitat: San Diego to San Francisco. 
* Abeona, an Indian name, probably. 
