. The fishes of North and Middle America [microform] : a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Fishes; Fishes; Poissons; Poissons. Jordan and Evennann.—Fishes of North America. 2355 plum color to olivo green; sides mottled and spotted with darker; a dark spot, oi-ellated with yiillow, generally prosout hetweeu first and second dorsal spines; dorsal Itliickish toward en<ls of rays; pectorals and anal white in female, slightly dusky in male; unexposed portion of lower lip entirely white; a yellow sji
. The fishes of North and Middle America [microform] : a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Fishes; Fishes; Poissons; Poissons. Jordan and Evennann.—Fishes of North America. 2355 plum color to olivo green; sides mottled and spotted with darker; a dark spot, oi-ellated with yiillow, generally prosout hetweeu first and second dorsal spines; dorsal Itliickish toward en<ls of rays; pectorals and anal white in female, slightly dusky in male; unexposed portion of lower lip entirely white; a yellow sjiot on base of caudal rays bidow and above. Coast of California, from Monterey to Santa liarbara; not rare; a remark- able tish. Here described from specimens from G to 8 inches in length, from Pacific Grove, California. We do not know what variation there may be in maxilliiry and barbels in larger or smaller specimens. This species differs from jV. aatirioua in having no second spot behind seventh spine of dorsal; in having that part of lower lip wliich is covered by the inaxillary entirely white; barbels in male much ^onger; maxillary shorter; head slightly shorter; and in having the pectorals and anal lighter. (Named for its discoverer, Dr. S. B. Blanchard.) Neoelinut blanchardi, Gibard, U. S. Pac. It. R. Surv., X, Fidh., 114,1858, San Oiego (Type, Coll. Dr. S. B. Blanchard) i GCntheh, Cat, ui, 201), 1861; JORDAN & )Ert, Synopais, 701,1883. Subgenus PTEROGNATHUS, Girard. 2092. NEOCLIXUS SATIRICUS, Girard. Head 3i in body; depth 8. , 17; ; eye 5 in head; pectoral 2; caudal 2A. Head bluntish, convex in profile; snout steep; jaws sub- e(|ual; unequal, small canines on jaws, vomer, and palatines; eye about e([ual to length of snout, interorbital flattish, about i eye in width; 3or I small barbels above eye, seldom as long as eye, the anterior one some- times absent on one or both sides; cirri not diil'erentiated in the female; a nmltiiid flap on anterio
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