. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 150 CALIFORXIA FISH AND GAME ficiis, to five specimens from the western North Pacific collected by the Soviet trawler K/V Vityaz from 1958 to 1966, one specimen off Japan (Franz 1910), and one specimen off British Columbia (Gilbert 1917). Thus, these two specimens from Moss Landing not only add a new species to the California marine fish fauna but represent the second and third recorded collections in the eastern North Pacific Ocean.
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 150 CALIFORXIA FISH AND GAME ficiis, to five specimens from the western North Pacific collected by the Soviet trawler K/V Vityaz from 1958 to 1966, one specimen off Japan (Franz 1910), and one specimen off British Columbia (Gilbert 1917). Thus, these two specimens from Moss Landing not only add a new species to the California marine fish fauna but represent the second and third recorded collections in the eastern North Pacific Ocean. The first specimen, considered by Hart (1973) to be lost, was discovered on loan to Scripps Institution of Oceano^aphy and is now being returned to the British Columbia Provincial Museum. The meristic and morphometric counts and measurements for the two specimens (Table 1) are similar to those given by Franz (1910), Gilbert (1917), and Parin and Becker (1970). This sixth California trichiurid can be distinguished from all other family members by the prominent symphyseal knob and the separate spinous and soft portions of the dorsal fin with its higher count of fin elements. Even though our specimens had been in formalin, the otolith morphology (Figure 2) differs from those described by Fitch and Gotshall (1972) in that the antirostrum (see Frizzell and Dante 1965) is not greatly pointed for- ward, the ventral surface of the otolith is more rounded than any other California trichiurid, and the greatest height of the otolith occurs along the middle third where the dorsal and ventral profiles are FIGURE 2. Left sagitta (otolith) from Benfhodesmus elongafus pacificus () (CAS 29300). Phofograph by Gary McDonald, April 1974. The two specimens of Benthodesmus elongatus pa-cificus collected off Moss Landing are deposited in the ichthvologv collection of the Cali- fornia Academy of Sciences (CAS 29300 and CAS 30692). ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We would like to thank John Fitch, Cal
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