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Title: California fish and game Year: 1914 (1910s) Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game California. Fish and Game Commission California. Division of Fish and Game Subjects: Fisheries Game and game-birds Fishes Publisher: [San Francisco, etc.] : State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: Fig. Tlie guitar fish Rhinobatus productus. Adult male. The guitar fish is not much expanded and disk-like, being sharplyMedge-shaped in front and tapering into a thick tail behind. Twodorsal fins and a caudal fin are well developed. The body is coveredwith shagreen and there are rows of hooked spines along the middleline of the back and tail, and a small bunch at the shoulder. The youngfish has small spines around the inner border of the e^e and along therostral ridges. The color is uniform dull brow^nish on the upper surfaceand white on the lower. This fisli is found from San Francisco to San Diego and southward.South of Point Conccpcion it is very common. It reaches a length of3 or 4 feet.

Text Appearing After Image: rig 3. Ilie prickly skate Zapteryx cxasperatus. Young female. CALIFORNIA FlijH AND GAME. D The Prickly Skate (Zapteryx exasperatus). The front margins of the disk are nndnhiting and together forman angle less than a right angle. The snout is prominent bnt blunt atthe tip. The front of the first dorsal tin is only a little behind the hindedge of the ventral tins. The upper surface of the body is covered withclose-set prickles of difterent sizes, rather than shagreen as in the nextspecies. There is a row of enlarged spines along the middle of the backand the tail, and 2 short rows on each shoulder of 2 or 3 spines each.There are no spines on the sides of the tail. The color is grayishbrown with indications of clouded crossbars. There is a large blackblotch on the lower surface of the pectoral at its hind end. This species has been recorded only from southern California, beingscarcely known outside of the bay of San Diego. Nearly 38 years ago,when this fish was first described, males wer

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