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English: Title: California fish and game

Identifier: californiafishga51_4cali Year: (s) Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission; California. Division of Fish and Game Subjects: Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons Publisher: [San Francisco, etc. ] State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game Contributing Library: California Department of Fish and Game Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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Text Appearing Before Image: MYRIPRISTIS SYSTEMATICS AND ZOOGEOGRAPHY 241

Text Appearing After Image: FIGURE 5 MYRIPRISTIS GILDI SP. NOV. DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS: May be distinguished from M. murdjan by having 32-35 pored scales in the lateral line (28-30 in M. murdjan) and by possessing less-intense coloration on the opercular membrane and pectoral axil. It is also separable from the species called M. murdjan by Woods (1953) by having a lower gill raker count. It is distinguished from M. clarionensis by having 2-J scale rows above the lateral line (3^ in M. clarionensis) ; from M. leiognathos by having a gill raker count of 34-37 and a dark mark on the pectoral axil (M. leiognathos has a gill raker count of 28-34, and lacks the dark mark on the pectoral axil). The only other species with which M. gildi could be confused is M. amaenus Castelnau from which it differs by having an interorbital width of 4.0-4.90 in the head instead of 3.05-3.92. Although M. gildi possesses knobs of teeth on either side of the sym- physis, it differs from M. melanostictus Bleeker in lacking the second set of turbercular teeth below those on the symphysis. M. gildi also differs from M. melanostictus in having 32-35 pored lateral line scales instead of 28. The type of M. melanostictus was kindly furnished for comparison by G. F. Mees of the Rijksmuseum Van Natuurlijke His- torie, Leiden. DESCRIPTION: Counts and measurements of the holotype are given first, followed by counts for the six paratypes in parentheses. Dor- sal X-I, 14 (14-15) ; anal IV, 12 (11-13) ; pored lateral line scales 34 (32-35) ; gill rakers 12 (11-12) on upper limb, lower limb 25 (23-25) ; total gill rakers 37 (34-37) ; scale rows between lateral line and spinous dorsal origin 1\; scale rows between lateral line and origin of anal fin 1\; predorsal scales 10 (9-10); branchiostegals 8; pectoral ii,13 (13- 14) ; pelvic 1,7; standard length for holotype 207mm. Standard length for paratypes—214, 189, 187, 185, 179, 151 mm; head in standard length 3.45 (3.14-3.45) ; greatest depth in length 2.49 (2.42-2.59) ; bodv proportions in length of head; interorbital 4.00 (4.00-4.91); snout 5.45 (4.83-6.56) ; orbit 2.50 (2.30-2.76) ; postorbital 2.14 (2.14- 2.27) ; least depth of caudal peduncle 2.82 (2.82-3.06) ; length of caudal peduncle 1.88 (1.77-1.88) ; greatest length of pelvic fin 1.58 (1.35-1.69); greatest length of pectoral fin 1.35 (1.27-1.39); length of upper caudal lobe 1.07 (1.07-1.22) ; length of lower caudal lobe 2—51176

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