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<emphasis bold="true" box="[103,236,1413,1436]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="462">Diagnosis.—</emphasis>
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is distinguished from all other described North Pacific species of
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by having a robust body covered with small bumps and anterior dorsal-fin rays forming a lobe with deeply exserted rays.
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shares these characters but
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differs in its more robust, shorter body reflected in having a greater body depth at pelvic disc (24.130.9 % vs. 17.324.6 % in
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than in
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: vertebrae 4243 (vs.
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), dorsal-fin rays 3840 (vs. 3843), and pectoral-fin rays 2629 (vs. 2832).
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is also similar to
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,
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, but is further and readily distinguished from it in its more slender body with its tight skin (vs. more robust body with loose skin in
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), two suprabranchial pores (vs. one pore), two separate chin pores (vs. one chin pore), and far lower meristic counts (dorsal-fin rays 3840 vs.
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,
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; anal-fin rays 3233 vs. 4345; pectoral-fin rays 2629 vs. 3238; and total vertebrae 4243 vs. 5357).
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Body stout, tapering posteriorly, slightly compressed, depth at dorsal-fin origin 92.7111.5 (109.6) % HL. Body posterior to anal-fin origin short, about 52.356.1 (52.3) % SL. Head moderately large, 26.028.5 (28.2) % SL, dorsal profile rounded from nape to snout. Snout rounded, slightly projecting beyond upper jaw, slightly longer than orbit, 26.136.5 (32.7) % HL. Mouth small, maxilla 38.346.9 (45.2) % HL, extending to mid-orbit, oral cleft extending anterior to orbit. Lower jaw slightly inferior, premaxillary tooth plates matching mandibular tooth plates. Premaxillary and mandibular teeth trilobed in 8 or 9 oblique rows, increasing from four to six teeth in anteromedial rows to nine teeth in posterolateral rows. Diastema absent at symphysis of upper and lower jaws. Orbit large, 24.029.8 (29.8) % HL, dorsal margin below dorsal contour of head, suborbital depth to oral cleft 54.678.3 (61.3) % OL; pupil round. Interorbital space broad, fleshy width 47.956.7 (56.7) % HL, bony width 23.530.1 (29.8) % HL, slightly convex. Nostril single, with base of well-developed tube at level with upper part of orbit; nostril tube length 6.17.7 (7.7) % HL, 22.630.4 (27.3) % OL.
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<paragraph blockId="6.[820,1491,320,2024]" pageId="6" pageNumber="462">Pores of cephalic lateralis of moderate size: nasal pores two, maxillary pores six, preoperculomandibular pores seven, suprabranchial pores two (pore pattern 2-6-7-2); chin pores paired in separate pits. Interorbital pore absent. Free neuromasts not observed.</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="6.[820,1491,320,2024]" pageId="6" pageNumber="462">Gill rakers 69 (8), short, rounded with tiny spines. Gill opening small, 14.622.9 (19.2) % HL, upper margin at level of mid-orbit or dorsal part of orbit, extending to just above pectoral fin. Opercular flap narrowly rounded. Branchiostegal rays six.</paragraph>
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Dorsal-fin rays 3840 (39;
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), anterior 56 rays exserted, deeply emarginate, forming slight lobe, anterior uniserial and unsegmented, more posterior rays biserial and segmented; all rays simple. Predorsal inserted between neural spines two and three, anteriormost dorsal-fin pterygiophore inserted between neural spines three and four, together bearing a single ray.
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Anal-fin rays 3233 (32;
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), all rays biserial, segmented, and simple. One or two anal-fin pterygiophores each bearing a single ray anterior to first haemal spine. Anal-fin origin below vertebrae 1112 (caudal vertebrae 12).
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Pectoral fin moderately notched, with 2629 (29) rays (
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). Upper lobe of 2022 (22) rays extending to anal-fin origin or beyond to anal-fin ray two, dorsalmost rays lengthening to rays 56, more ventral rays gradually shortening to shortest ray of notch. Lower lobe short, with 78 (7) rays, extending to anus; dorsal rays gradually lengthening to thick and fleshy rays 34, ventral rays gradually shortening to ventralmost ray near pectoral symphysis. Tips of rays 540 % free of membrane, lower rays more strongly exserted. Rays in notch slightly more widely spaced than rays of lobes. Uppermost pectoral-fin ray level with ventral rim of orbit. Lowermost pectoral-fin ray below posterior rim of orbit.
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Proximal pectoral radials four (
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1
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1
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1), robust, unnotched, radial four not widely spaced from radial three, radial 2 larger than all others (
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). Scapular fenestra small, other fenestrae absent. Scapula with slender strong helve; coracoid narrowly triangular with broad lamina. Distal radials present at base of all except the first pectoral-fin ray, more ventral distal radials reduced.
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<paragraph blockId="7.[142,812,179,850]" pageId="7" pageNumber="463">Pelvic disk large, 40.444.6 (42.7) % HL, flat, round, about equal in length to width, anterior lobe moderately developed, flat with margins often slightly upturned. Anus closer to pelvic disk than to anal-fin origin.</paragraph>
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Principal caudal-fin rays 1011 (11;
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), dorsal procurrent rays 1, ventral procurrent rays 1. Membrane of posterior dorsal-fin rays attached to caudal fin 14.027.9 (20.0) % CL; posterior anal-fin rays, 14.030.8 (20.0) % CL.
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<paragraph blockId="7.[142,812,179,850]" pageId="7" pageNumber="463">Skin thin, small rounded bumps covered with tiny prickles widespread over body. Pyloric caeca 1618, thick, length about 43% HL.</paragraph>
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Vertebrae 4243 (43), 9 precaudal, 3334 (34) caudal (
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). Pleural ribs absent or one reduced pair on penultimate precaudal vertebra. Hypural plate composed of dorsal and ventral plates divided by deep split about 5075 % length of plate. Single epural present.
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Of
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examined, three, including the
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, were females
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with ripe eggs. The smallest specimen was a
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immature male (UW 154503).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[142,284,880,903]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="463">Coloration.—</emphasis>
In life, body overall light red-orange (
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). Top of head from nape to snout pale, unpigmented. Red slash extending from nares posteriorly over eyes and joining pigmented red-orange cheeks. Anterior pores of head surrounded by unpigmented areas, lips unpigmented. Bright white flash behind pectoral fin over side of abdomen; pale, unpigmented area posterior to white flash above anal-fin origin extending to dorsal-fin base posterior to anterior lobe. All fins with red rays, membranes unpigmented. Eye black. Peritoneum and orobranchial cavity pale; stomach, intestines, pyloric caeca, and urogenital papilla pale. When preserved, body uniformly pale with scattered fine dark speckling (
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[142,298,1287,1310]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="463">Distribution.—</emphasis>
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has been collected only in the Aleutian Islands at depths of
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(
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). The
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was collected just west of the Islands of Four Mountains (
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), while all
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were collected about
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to the west in the vicinity of Tanaga Island (
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to
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[142,283,1488,1511]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="463">Etymology.—</emphasis>
Named for the diligent collector of many snailfish
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and other specimens, Katherine P. Maslenikov, Collections Manager of the Burke Museums Fish Collection at the University of
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, and for her contributions to and cheerful support of ichthyology in the Pacific Northwest.
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