. California fish and game . riosity to fishermen and others. The purplish tints on the head. The eye islarge and placed low; the mouth is smalland armed with many small bristle-liketeeth ; the fins are bright red, the dorsalextending from the head to the tail. Thefirst ray of the dorsal fin is produced,forming a high crest about eighteen incheslong. Unfortunately it was broken inmaking the capture, but was said to bearseveral membranous streamers which werered like the fins. This is the first specimen which hasfallen into the hands of naturalists inAmerica. Indeed, probably not more thana doz
. California fish and game . riosity to fishermen and others. The purplish tints on the head. The eye islarge and placed low; the mouth is smalland armed with many small bristle-liketeeth ; the fins are bright red, the dorsalextending from the head to the tail. Thefirst ray of the dorsal fin is produced,forming a high crest about eighteen incheslong. Unfortunately it was broken inmaking the capture, but was said to bearseveral membranous streamers which werered like the fins. This is the first specimen which hasfallen into the hands of naturalists inAmerica. Indeed, probably not more thana dozen specimens have ever been taken,and its rarity makes its occurrence inCalifornia well worthy of note. Thespecies was first described by ProfessorGiorna, of the Academy of Turin, in many other pelagic fishes, it is evi-dently very widely distributed. It hasbeen taken at various other places in theMediterranean, at the Cape of Good Hope,and in New Zealand. Single specimensof the same or very closely related species. Fig. 14. Crested band-fish. Lophotes cepediaris? Taken in the surf at Long Beach,California, July 25, 1919. Photograph by V. E. Pearl. specimen was found to be a species ofLophotes, probably L. cepediantis, Giorna,the crested band-fish. The fish wasfound swimming feebly in the breakers atLong Beach and was caught by a coupleof passers-by who waded into the surfand seized it in their hands. It was takento a photographer by Mr. V. E. Pearl,where the accompanying photograph () was made, and the fish was thengiven to us. The fish is long and much compressed,being about four feet long, eight inchesdeep, and only one and three-eighths incheswide. The skin is smooth, without scales,except for a single row against the dorsalfin, and of a bright silvery color with have also been taken near the MadeiraIslands and in Japan. None of the speci-mens have been taken in the fishs nat-ural habitat which is said to be moderatedepths in the open sea, but all have beenc
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