PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
Series 4, Volume 65, 28 Sept. 2018, No. 1 
arrayed along ventral border of longitudinal white stripe from behind gill cover to upper margin of 
caudal peduncle; median fins with numerous pale blue dots, which extend onto caudal peduncle in 
three horizontal rows; two or three dark oblique stripes on cheek; tips of anal and caudal fins black. 
Juveniles (Fig. 3) often differ in having a broad white stripe bordered by two black stripes, the 
upper black stripe extending from tip of snout to base of upper caudal-fin lobe, the lower extend¬ 
ing from below eye to base of lower caudal-fin lobe; caudal fin transparent. A photograph of a 
yellow morph from the Cape Verde Islands (presumably from deep water) (Fig. 4) shows body 
overall brownish yellow, the dorsal two-thirds darker, the ventral one-third pale whitish. About 15 
vertically elongated darker blotches on sides of body, some partially merged with others. Head with 
yellow stripes, one stripe running from snout tip through eye and onto upper margin of gill cover; 
another running below eye and bifurcating into two stripes on preopercle; a third stripe along upper 
margin of maxilla. One or two broader irregular stripes on nape. Dorsal fin yellow overall with dark 
distal margin on soft dorsal; pectoral fin yellow; pelvic fin mostly blackish, but base and spine pale 
whitish; anal spine pale, soft rays yellow near base and blackish over most of distal portion; 
caudal fin mostly yellow with prominent black tips on upper and lower lobes, posterior margin 
faintly blackish. 
Size: Maximum size about 35 cm TL. 
Habitat and distribution. — Over hard bottoms from the shore to about 90 m; from the Bay 
of Biscay to Guinea Bissau, including the Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands, 
and also in the Mediterranean Sea. 
Remarks. — This is a common species that supports artisanal fisheries in the off-shore islands 
of the African coast as well as slong the continental coastline from the Bay of Biscay to Maurita¬ 
nia, and also in the Mediterranean Sea. The only record that we know of from the mainland coast 
of West Africa south of Mauritania is by (Heemstra and Anderson 2016) from off Guinea-Bissau. 
Specimens examined (2 spec.).— Canary Islands: CAS-SU 3108 (2, 150-185 mm SL); 
Canary Is.; collector C.F. Cook. 
Serranus ( Serranus ) cabrilla (Linnaeus, 1758) 
Figures 5-7 
Perea cabrilla Linnaeus, 1758 (no locality given). 
Paracentropristis cabrilla'. Fowler, 1936:1291 (14 spec., 137-325 mm; Madeira, Canaries, Azores). 
Serranus cabrilla: Poll 1954:69-72, fig. 19 (17 spec., 79-240 mm; Gabon to s. Angola). Robins and Starck 
1961:261-262, figs, la, 7c, 8a, 8c (4 spec., Spain and Italy). Quero et al. 1990:704-705 (compiled). 
Diagnosis.— D X,13-14; P 14-16; V III,7; gill rakers 6-8+12-16 (18-24 total); pored 
lateral-line scales 70-77; circumpeduncular scales 36^40. Caudal fin shallowly forked, upper lobe 
slightly longer than lower lobe, a very short streamer on upper lobe in juveniles, but none devel¬ 
oped in adults. Interradial membranes of dorsal and anal fins scaled on basal one-half to one-third. 
Nape, opercle, cheek, pectoral-fin base and chest scaled. 
Description. — Body compressed, width across pectoral fin base about 2 in HL; depth about 
3 in SL; head about 2.7-2.8 in SL. Dorsal and ventral profiles gently curved; the snout pointed and 
longer than orbit diameter; interorbital width (fleshy) slightly greater than orbit diameter; lower 
jaw projecting beyond upper jaw; maxilla extending to below midorbit. Anterior nostrils with low 
rims lacking fingerlike fringes or cirri. Opercular spines three, the upper two fairly well developed, 
the lowermost obscure in adults, but more visible in juveniles. Preopercle margin coarsely serrat¬ 
ed, largest spines near angle. Interopercle smooth, (a few imbedded scales in large specimens); 
snout, interorbit, occiput, suborbit, jaws, gular and branchiostegal membranes naked. 
