. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Fisheries; Fish culture. NOTES (>X FISHKS OF HAVVAH. 209 I'ainil) : H. Arioinina evermanni .r<irnns is represented by one badly preserved specimen. It differs from Arhimiiiii liiridit in having a smaller head, sliorter snout, smaller eyes, .shorter gillrakers, and larger scales. The head is apparently naked and the caudal is forked, characters which both species may, however, possess in conaiicm. The anal rays are evidently preceded by two spines in .1. eret'iininni. Head in length measureil to of caudal; depth 4; depth of caudal
. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Fisheries; Fish culture. NOTES (>X FISHKS OF HAVVAH. 209 I'ainil) : H. Arioinina evermanni .r<irnns is represented by one badly preserved specimen. It differs from Arhimiiiii liiridit in having a smaller head, sliorter snout, smaller eyes, .shorter gillrakers, and larger scales. The head is apparently naked and the caudal is forked, characters which both species may, however, possess in conaiicm. The anal rays are evidently preceded by two spines in .1. eret'iininni. Head in length measureil to of caudal; depth 4; depth of caudal )iedum'le . in head; eye ; snout ; interorbital space ; dursal m-i, ; anal ii. In; pectoral ;>; scales in lateral^ series about 3S. Snout blunter and slightly more than that of A. Inriihi; caudal peduncle short anil cylindrical; interorbital space very convex; eyes with thin adipose lids; maxillary not freely protractile, rounded posteriorly, about equal in length to diameter of eye, almost entirely concealed beneath a broad, pendant, preorbital Hap; jaws eijual, each with a single row of minute teeth; vomer and palatines without teeth; t<;ingue large and smooth; gillrakers 7+19, short, slender, and pointed; psendo-branc-hia- present; nostrils near tij) of -Arit'iniiia rvi-niiiiTnii .lunljui A* Sindrr, )h;\n' spi-ci Head naked; scales of body large, cycloid, very small on caudal peduncle, extending forward on occipital part of head almost to a point above ]]osterior margin of eye. Origin of dorsal above jjosterior edge of ba-se of pectoral; the spines slender, the longest i,third f>r fourth) contained times in length of head; spinous and soft dorsals apparently connected by mem- brane; base of anal long, nearly equal to length of head; fii-st 2 rays small and spine-like; last ray of dorsal and anal pencillated, nearly disconnected like the iinlets of OJigojdiles, these fins extending an equal distance posteriorly; j)ectoral
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