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OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
Number 159 
Type Specimen : Extant, Platysomatichthys stomias Jordan and Gilbert 1880e, holotype, 7USNM 27186 
(Eschmeyer 1998:1616). 
Type Locality : Just outside Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California. 
Referred Specimens in Fitch 0967:19-20 : From LACMIP locality 435 (= LACM localities 3065, 3759), 
Miraleste Canyon, Lomita Marl Formation, Pleistocene (Irvingtonian), Los Angeles County; otoliths (no 
specific specimens mentioned) (see Remarks). 
Referred Specimens in Fitch 0968:12k Cites Fitch (1967) that A. stomias otoliths were found in the Lomita 
Marl, but they are rare (see Remarks). 
Referred Specimens in Nolf ( 1985:104L Cites Fitch(1968) that otoliths of A. stomias have been reported from 
the California Pliocene. 
Remarks : Fitch (1967, 1968) believed locality LACMIP locality 435 (Lomita Marl) was of Pliocene age, but 
it is now considered Pleistocene (Blake 1991; Dibblee 1999), therefore the presence of A. stomias in the 
Neogene is errroneus. 
