. The fishes of North and Middle America [microform] : a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Fishes; Fishes; Poissons; Poissons. Ef-i |)s;t <i â IP m m. I:,: i. ^ âf ' I- fm 2720 Bulletin , United States National Museum. out membrane; third spine nearly erect, not free, depressible with diflB- culty; not curved as in A. aanguineus; spines on the body rather coarse and shagreen-like, Avith expanded, undivided tips. Color in spirits, top of head, including dorsal spines and. front of soft dorsal
. The fishes of North and Middle America [microform] : a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Fishes; Fishes; Poissons; Poissons. Ef-i |)s;t <i â IP m m. I:,: i. ^ âf ' I- fm 2720 Bulletin , United States National Museum. out membrane; third spine nearly erect, not free, depressible with diflB- culty; not curved as in A. aanguineus; spines on the body rather coarse and shagreen-like, Avith expanded, undivided tips. Color in spirits, top of head, including dorsal spines and. front of soft dorsal, coral red, the body otherwise light gray, broadly reticulated on sides and below with heavy black lines, which inclose 5 or 6 large pale spots; pectorals, ven- trals, and anal with narrow terminal and wide median black bars. Soft dorsal uniformly light. This species closely resembles A. aanguineus, but differs from it in the straight, erect spinules, the color, and jhe character of the plates on the body. Length IJ inches. Gulf of California. (Gil- bert.) Only the type known, {reticularis, netted.) Antennarins reticularis, Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mu8. 1891, 566, Gulf of California, at Albatross Station 2835. (Coll. Gilbert.) 8099. AXTENNABIVS STRICIATUS, Gill. D. III-12; A. 7. First dorsal spine elongate, filiform, twice length of second, witli very slender, dermal tip; third spine more robust than second, wholly concealed in the skin, its length equal to that of fir8t spine. Li])S, maxillary, and a large transverse area behind second dorsal spine naked, each side of this area with a few spinous tubercles; skin elsewhere covered with fine shagreen-like armature. Color in spirits, oli- vaceous everywhere on body and on inside of mouth, finely mottled with light olive Itrown; many irregtilar blackish areas on head and body,those on iower side of head showing a tendency to form concentric bars; some on Hides fonning irregular bars downward from b&ck; posterior ])ortion o
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