. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. THE SHORE FISHES OF PERU PARALABRAX CALLAENSIS Starks Cabrilla 179 Figure 40 Paralabrax callaensis Starks, 1906, p. 787, pi. 65, fig. 2, Callao, Peru (original de- scription, based on one specimen).—Evermann and Radcliffe, 1917, p. 74, Guanape North Island, and Chimbote, Peru (description based on two speci- mens; compared with P. humeralis.—Walford, 1937, p. 113 (description of color, based on preserved material).—Fowler, 1940b, p. 770, fig. 50, "without locality likely from Peru" (the specimen listed is at hand and agrees with ot
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. THE SHORE FISHES OF PERU PARALABRAX CALLAENSIS Starks Cabrilla 179 Figure 40 Paralabrax callaensis Starks, 1906, p. 787, pi. 65, fig. 2, Callao, Peru (original de- scription, based on one specimen).—Evermann and Radcliffe, 1917, p. 74, Guanape North Island, and Chimbote, Peru (description based on two speci- mens; compared with P. humeralis.—Walford, 1937, p. 113 (description of color, based on preserved material).—Fowler, 1940b, p. 770, fig. 50, "without locality likely from Peru" (the specimen listed is at hand and agrees with other Peruvian material). Head to ; depth to ; D. X, 13 or 14; A. Ill, 7; P. 17 to 19, usually 18; scales about 13 to 15-92 to 104. Body rather deep, compressed, its greatest thickness fully as great as half the depth; back moderately elevated; dorsal profile anteriorly nearly straight; caudal peduncle moderately compressed, its depth to in head; snout pointed, to ; eye to ; interor- bital to ; mouth large, oblique; lower jaw projecting, entering dorsal outline; maxillary extending nearly or quite to vertical from posterior margin of pupil, to m head; teeth in jaws in bands, the. Figure 40.—Paralabrax callaensis Starks. From the type, 247 mm. long, Callao, Peru ( No. 53471). (After Starks, 1906.) outer ones in each jaw somewhat enlarged, the rest minute, similar small ones on vomer and palatines; vertical margin of preopercle finely but strongly serrate, the serrae somewhat enlarged at angle, those on lower margin rather larger and more widely spaced than the ones on the vertical margin; gill rakers at angle about two-thirds length of eye, decreasing to mere rudiments anteriorly on each limb, 18 to 22 on lower and 10 to 12 on upper limb of first arch; lateral line complete, following the curve of back; scales quite small, strongly ctenoid, extending for- ward on interorbital and suborbital, nearly or quite to ant
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