. 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. Jordan ami Evermann.âFishes of North America. 571 obliqiifl series. Body moderately elongate, the liond deep and blnnt, the rtuuutnot half the diameter of the large eye, which is about 3 in head; pec- toral short, reaching past front of dorsal; anal high. Open Atlantic, west to 63° W., 38° N. (LUtken.) (affinis, related, to M, caninianuii-= M. liiinctatum.) S'<'pelMnf
. 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. Jordan ami Evermann.âFishes of North America. 571 obliqiifl series. Body moderately elongate, the liond deep and blnnt, the rtuuutnot half the diameter of the large eye, which is about 3 in head; pec- toral short, reaching past front of dorsal; anal high. Open Atlantic, west to 63° W., 38° N. (LUtken.) (affinis, related, to M, caninianuii-= M. liiinctatum.) S'<'pelMnffliii«, LOtken, Spolia Atliintica, ii. .'12, 18!l2, open M. sr>H. MVCTOPIIHN OPALINUM, Ooodo & Henn. Head 4J; depth 4J; eye about 2s. D. 12 ; A. 20; scales 40. Least height of tail i height of body. Snout very short, declivous, with a well-developed median keel, its length about k diameter of eye. Eye large. Premaxillary reaching nearly to angle of preoperculum, broadly expanded at its extremity and partly concealed by the large scales of the cheek. Space between eye and hinder edge of preoperculum only A diameter of eye. Origin of dorsal much nearer tip of snout than to root of caudal, midway between snout and adipose fin, over eleventh scale of lateral line and very slightly behind vertical through origin of ventral; length of dorsal base s that of head ; origin of ventral under tenth scale of lateral line ; it does not reach to vent; pectoral short, its length nearly s that of head; adipose dorsal present, its origin over thirtieth scale of lateral line; anal origin under eighteenth scale of lateral line, the end of its base under thirtieth scale; length of anal base equal to that of head; caudal rather small, moderately forked. Mediolateral })liotophores 3, in straight, obliciuely ascending line ; anterolateral 1 ; posterolateral 1, under soft dorsal and over and slightly in advance of break in row of superanals, which is above root of last ray of
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