. 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. m' It 1 I. 1?U: 432 Bulletin 47^ United States National Museum. short and low; pectcrals Iji^ m head; ventrals 1^ Scales smooth, tirtn closely adherent, entire-edged, without striai; a very narrow sheutli of scales along dorsal and anal; caudal scaled half its length. Voiiiml scutes strongly developed, with .strong ntpines. Translucent greenish, sides silvery, each scale w
. 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. m' It 1 I. 1?U: 432 Bulletin 47^ United States National Museum. short and low; pectcrals Iji^ m head; ventrals 1^ Scales smooth, tirtn closely adherent, entire-edged, without striai; a very narrow sheutli of scales along dorsal and anal; caudal scaled half its length. Voiiiml scutes strongly developed, with .strong ntpines. Translucent greenish, sides silvery, each scale with its marginal half punctate; a dark lino along middle of back; snout and tip of lower jaw dusky ; side with a very bright, well-defined silvery band, as in Stolephorna, margined liy blu'sh above; the band widest mesially, as wide as a scale, a littlo wider tLaiupupil; at base of caudal the band expands abruptly; tips of doisal and caudal lobes jet-black. Length J inches. Gulf of California to Pan- ama; abundant about Mazatlan; a beautiful and well-marked specioH, and a very delicate food-fish, allied to the genus PcUonnIa, and to the East Indian species Cl"pen lile, which belongs to the same subgenus (LiU). (atolifer, bearing a stole, or white zone.) Cltqieti rtoHfera, Jordan & Oilukrt, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mub., 1881, 339, Mazatlan. (Tyi"', No. 28126. Coll. Gilbert.) 211. OPISTHONEMA, Gill. (Threau Herring.) Opitthonemi\, Giti, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sol. Philii., 1861, 37, (thriisn = oglinwn). Characters essentially those of iSardiHella, except that the last r;iy ot the dorsal is produced in a long lil' as in Dorosoma, Metjalopa, and lar- pon. Species few, American. {bnia'De, behind; vf/fia, a thread.) a. Head 4 to 4i in length; depth about 3^; anal rays about 2',i, aideH of back |with dark ppcitH. OOLINLM, Tllli. aa. Head iarger, 3j( to 3| in length; depth 3 to 3^; anal rays about 20; back witliuiit (l;irk 8I)Ot8. LIBEUTATE, TU-l. 703. OPISTHONEMA OOLINTIH (Lo iJu
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