. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. CALIFORNIA SEAROBIN (PRIONOTUS STEPHA- NOPHRYS), A FISH NEW FOR THE FAUNA OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA' By Carl L. Hubbs Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California Fishes of the genus Prionotus, known as searobins, are common mem- bers of the Atlantic Coast fauna of the United States and are not rare on either side of tropical Middle America, but have very seldom been found on the Pacific Coast of the United States.
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. CALIFORNIA SEAROBIN (PRIONOTUS STEPHA- NOPHRYS), A FISH NEW FOR THE FAUNA OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA' By Carl L. Hubbs Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California Fishes of the genus Prionotus, known as searobins, are common mem- bers of the Atlantic Coast fauna of the United States and are not rare on either side of tropical Middle America, but have very seldom been found on the Pacific Coast of the United States. In fact, only one of the several species known from waters to the southward has been recorded on valid grounds from as far north as California, and only two or three specimens seem to have been collected north of the Mexican border. It is therefore of interest to report the first taking in southern California of a specimen of this species, Prionotus stephanoijhrys Lockington (1881, pp. 529-532).. Fig. 62. California searobin, Prionotus stephanophrys: a 121-inch specimen, the first to be recorded from Southern California. Photograph by Paul Williams. Although the species has so seldom been collected in California, the first described or type specimen was taken in October, 1880, in a paranzella trawl "in the tolerably deep water of the region between the rocky islets known as the Farallones, the entrance of San Francisco Bay, and Point Reyes, a rocky promontory some forty miles north of San ; The discription of the species by Jordan and Gilbert (1883, p. 736) and the revisionary treatment by Jordan and Hughes (1886, pp. 329 and 334) were both drawn up on the basis of Lockington's one example (No. 27048, United States National Museum). No further material appears to have been recorded until 1896, when Jordan and Evermann (p. 487) assigned to this form a range in "deep water, off San Francisco, Point Reyes, and ; Presumably "San Francis
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