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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 239 COLOR IN ALCOHOL: Back and sides yellowish; top of head brown; increased brown pigment spots where longitudinal rows of scales overlap producing a slight striped effect; opercular flap brown, both above and below opercular spine; dorsal, caudal, anal, pectorals, and pelvies immaculate; pectoral axil without distinct dark patch. REMARKS: M. clarionensis is the only American Myripristis having 3^ scale rows between the lateral line and the base of the spinous dorsal, all other species have 2h This species is endemic to the eastern tropical Pacific, but unlike M. leiognathos it is restricted to the Eevillagigedo Archipelago and Clipperton Island. In light of the statement by Richer (1959) that Clarion Island demonstrates a definite faunal isolation from the other islands in the Revillagigedo Archipelago, I investigated the possibility of geographic variation between the specimens from Clarion Island and the other islands but no statistically significant variation between these areas could be found. 4,^4

Text Appearing After Image: FIGURE 4 SYNONOMY MYRIPRISTIS MURDJAN (FORSSKAL) Sciana murdjan Forsskal, Desc. Anim., 1775, p. 48, (Red Sea) Perca murdjan Block and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 86. Myripristis murdjan Riippell, Atlas Reise Nordl. Afrika, Fische Rotken Meeres, 1828, p. 86, pi. 23, fig. 2; Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, 1873-75, vol. 2, p. 92, pi. 61; Day, Fishes of India, 1878-88, p. 170, Supplement, p. 788, pi. 41, fig. 2 ; Jenkins, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. for 1902 (1903), p. 440 (Hawaiian Islands); Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm., 1905, pt. 1, p. 152, pi. V, (Hawaiian Islands) ; Snodgrass and Heller, Proe. Wash. Acad. Sci., vol. VI, 1905, p. 356-358 (Galapagos Id. and Cocos Id.) ; Borodin, Bull. Vanderbilt Marine Mus., vol. 1, art. 1, 1928, p. 15 (Cocos); Herre, Field Mus. Pub., no. 353, Zool. Ser., vol. 21, 1936, p. 73-74 (Cocos) ; Briggs, Evolution 15(4), 1961, p. 545-554; Briggs, Copeia, 4, 1964, p. 706-708.

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