. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Systematics and Biology of Peprilus • 183. (Qmurt. Figure 10. Peprilus ovatus, holotype, mm SL, 20 miles SW of Golfo de Santa Clara, northern Gulf of California, USNM 203304. beach seine); *UCLA W55-27 (6 , Baja Calif., Punta Diggs, 5-10 miles S of San Felipe, 26 m, 11 March 1955, shrimpboat YUKY); *UCLA W55-28 (3: , Baja Calif., 4 to 5 miles N of San Felipe, 27 m, 11 March 1955, shrimp- boat YUKY). Diagnosis. P. ovatus is a short, deep- bodied species with slightly falcate dorsal and anal
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Systematics and Biology of Peprilus • 183. (Qmurt. Figure 10. Peprilus ovatus, holotype, mm SL, 20 miles SW of Golfo de Santa Clara, northern Gulf of California, USNM 203304. beach seine); *UCLA W55-27 (6 , Baja Calif., Punta Diggs, 5-10 miles S of San Felipe, 26 m, 11 March 1955, shrimpboat YUKY); *UCLA W55-28 (3: , Baja Calif., 4 to 5 miles N of San Felipe, 27 m, 11 March 1955, shrimp- boat YUKY). Diagnosis. P. ovatus is a short, deep- bodied species with slightly falcate dorsal and anal fins. It is distinguished from P. snyderi by having a much deeper body- mean body depth of 619 compared to 427 for P. snyderi, each in thousandths of SL; an eye diameter greater than the length of the snout; a mean number of dorsal fin- rays of compared to for P. snyderi; and 31 to 33 rather than 36 total vertebrae. It is distinguished from P. simillimus by having a much deeper body - mean body depth of 619 compared to 461 for P. simillimus; an eye diameter greater than the length of the snout; a mean num- ber of anal fin-rays of compared to for P. simillimus; and 31 to 33 rather than 30 or 31 total vertebrae. Characters that distinguish P. ovatus from P. medius are listed in the diagnosis of the latter species. The specific epithet, ovatus, is from the Latin and is descriptive of the short, deep body of the species. Description. Proportional measurements are given in Table 9 and meristic values in Table 10. Body ovate, deep, compressed; anterior dorsal profile moderately convex. Eye diameter greater than length of snout. Dorsal and anal fins slightly falcate, the longest dorsal ray three to six times the length of the shortest dorsal ray, the longest anal ray two to five times the length of the shortest anal ray. Dorsal fin with three or four (usually four) small, bladelike spines preceding the rays; anal fin with three or four (usually three) spines prec
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