. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Fisheries; Fish culture. THE FISHES OF ALASKA. 285 80. Sebastodes swifti Evermann & Goldsborough, new species. Head in body; depth ; eye in head; snout ; maxillary 2; mandible ; interorbital about 2 in eye, 6 in head; dorsal xiii, 13; anal iii, 7; scales 42 in oblique series, about 32 pores. Body oblong-ovate, compressed, the dorsal and ventral contours gently curved, the dorsal sloping rather gently both ways from the nape; caudal peduncle rather slender, its least depth in eye; head large, bluntish; interorljital space rather
. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Fisheries; Fish culture. THE FISHES OF ALASKA. 285 80. Sebastodes swifti Evermann & Goldsborough, new species. Head in body; depth ; eye in head; snout ; maxillary 2; mandible ; interorbital about 2 in eye, 6 in head; dorsal xiii, 13; anal iii, 7; scales 42 in oblique series, about 32 pores. Body oblong-ovate, compressed, the dorsal and ventral contours gently curved, the dorsal sloping rather gently both ways from the nape; caudal peduncle rather slender, its least depth in eye; head large, bluntish; interorljital space rather naiTow, somewhat concave, a pronounced ridge inside of each supraocular ridge; nasal, prcocular, supraocular, postocular, tympanic, parietal, nuchal, and coronal spines all present, rather strong; preorbital narrow, with two broad flat lobes on the upper hall': two broad flat humeral spines; opercular spines strong, somewhat diverging; preopercular spines moderately stnmg, the second longest, the fu-st, second, and third projecting backward, but somewhat diverging, the fom-th and fifth short and blunt, projecting downward and backward, all about eqtially spaced; teeth in rather narrow villiform bands on both jaws and palatines, a triangular patch on vomer; the band of teeth on upper jaw broadening to rounded lobes anteriorly, leaving a small, naked interspace at the s>Tnphysis into which the symphyseal knob of the lower jaw fits; the tongue small, short, and broadly rounded; maxillary reaching vertical at posterior edge of pupil, its width at the tip 2 in eye; lower jaw scarcely projecting: tlie mouth somewhat oblique; preraaxillary on a level with lower edge of pupil; gillrakers 8+21, rather long and slender, the longest about 2 in eye. Dorsal long, its origin A ^.. Fig. .36.—Sebastodes swifti Evermann & Goldsborough, new species. Type. a little in front of the rounded opercular flap, the distance from tip of snout to origin of dorsal equaling the length of head: base
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