. Fig. 67. Sebastodes oculatus. x \. Steindachner (1881) regarded S. oculatus as identical with the earlier described S. capensis (Gmelin), and there is no doubt that the two forms are barely separable. I have examined 8 specimens of S. capensis from South Africa, Tristan da Cunha, and Gough Island, and find that the only reliable difference between these and the examples from the Magellan region lies in the shape of the spinous dorsal fin. In the Cape species the third to fifth spines appear to be the longest, the length being 3^ to nearly 4 in that of head. In recent years American authors h
. Fig. 67. Sebastodes oculatus. x \. Steindachner (1881) regarded S. oculatus as identical with the earlier described S. capensis (Gmelin), and there is no doubt that the two forms are barely separable. I have examined 8 specimens of S. capensis from South Africa, Tristan da Cunha, and Gough Island, and find that the only reliable difference between these and the examples from the Magellan region lies in the shape of the spinous dorsal fin. In the Cape species the third to fifth spines appear to be the longest, the length being 3^ to nearly 4 in that of head. In recent years American authors have tended to divide the large genus, Sebastodes, which contains a number of species from the coasts of California, Alaska and Japan, as well as a few from the Pacific coast of South America, into a number of genera. The differences between these, however, are slight and not always constant, and I have preferred to use the name Sebastodes in the wider sense of Jordan and Evermann (1898). Barnard has placed the species from South Africa, originally described as Scorpaena capensis, in the genus Sebastichthys, Gill, pointing out that this is closely allied to Sebastodes, differing in the short gill-rakers and narrow, concave interorbital space. 16-2
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