. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. RECORD OF THE OILFISH (RUVETTUS PRETIOSUS) IN CALIFORNIA' By Percy S. Barniiart and Carl L. IIubbs Scripps Institufion of Oceanography and University of Michigan The fish family Gempylidae (the "escolars") has been known in California only from Myers' (1932) record of a specimen of Xeno- gramma carivaixim Waite, whicli was fonnd east up on the strand at Long- Beach. We are now able to report that another gempylid visits the
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. RECORD OF THE OILFISH (RUVETTUS PRETIOSUS) IN CALIFORNIA' By Percy S. Barniiart and Carl L. IIubbs Scripps Institufion of Oceanography and University of Michigan The fish family Gempylidae (the "escolars") has been known in California only from Myers' (1932) record of a specimen of Xeno- gramma carivaixim Waite, whicli was fonnd east up on the strand at Long- Beach. We are now able to report that another gempylid visits the shores of California, at least occasionally. An oilfish (Ruveffus pretiosus Cocco), apparently the first to be made known from the eastern Pacific, was caught off Encinitas, San ])ieg'o County, California, on August 13,1942. Unfortunately the details of capture are unknown, but since the oilfish was brought to market with a catch of rockfish (Sehastodes), we may presume that it was taken on a set-line. According to reports the oilfish usually lives between depths of 50 and 400 fathoms. The specimen which we are recording measures 475 mm. in standard length. It is preserved in the museum of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Its photograph is reproduced as Fig. Fig. 29. Oilfish, Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco, caught off Encinitas, California. Buvettus pretiosus is best known from the two sides of the North Atlantic, but has also been recorded from various South Sea islands (Ciudger, 1928), and from tlie East Indies, Japan, Hawaii and South Africa. The Pacific population has been referred to a distinct species by Weber (1913, pp. 401-404, pi. 8, fig. 4), Jordan and Jordan (1922, p. 34) and Jordan and Hubbs (1925, p. 221), but this conclusion is not accepted by Fowler (1928, p. 135, pi. 10, fig. A), nor by Kamohara (1938: 46-47). Whether a Pacific species {Ruvettus tydemani Weber) is separable from the Atlantic (or circumtropical) B. pretiosus, or whether more than one spec
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