. 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 and Evcrmann.—Fishes of North America. 2313 brane; ventrals pale. Leugth about 6^ Inches. Gulf of Mexico, in 27 to 88 fathoms; 1 specimeu known, (albua, white; guiUi, spot.) Cathetostoma albigutta, 13ean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas. 1892, 121, Gulf of Mexico, at Alba- tross Station 2403, Lat. a8° 4a' 30" N., Lon. 85° ag' 00" W. (Type, Xo. 39304, U. S. Nat. Mils.
. 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 and Evcrmann.—Fishes of North America. 2313 brane; ventrals pale. Leugth about 6^ Inches. Gulf of Mexico, in 27 to 88 fathoms; 1 specimeu known, (albua, white; guiUi, spot.) Cathetostoma albigutta, 13ean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas. 1892, 121, Gulf of Mexico, at Alba- tross Station 2403, Lat. a8° 4a' 30" N., Lon. 85° ag' 00" W. (Type, Xo. 39304, U. S. Nat. Mils.) Suborder HAPLODOCI. This group is distinguished mainly by the undivided post-temporal, the leductiou in the number of gill arches to 3, and by the absence of pecu- liarities shown by related forms. One family. (a;f/\do?, simple; Sokoz, a shaft or beam, from the form of the post-temporal.) Family CXCVIII. BATRACHOIUID^. (TlIK TOAU-KI8HKS.) IJody more or less robust, depressed anteriorly, compressed behind; head large, depressed, its muciferous chann«.>ls well developed; mouth very large, the teeth generally strong; premaxillaries protractile; gills .3, a slit behind the last; pseudobranchiie none; gill openings restricted to the sides, the membranes broadly united to the isthmus; branchiostegals mostly 6; gill rakers present, moderate; suborbital without bony stay; post-temporal bone simple, undivided; scales small, cycloid, or wanting; dorsal fins 2, the first of 2 or 3 low, stout spines; soft dorsal very long; anal fin similar, but shorter; ventrals rather large, jugular, I, 2 or I, 3; l)ectoral8 very broad, the rays branched; pyloric Ciuca none; tail diphy- cercal, the caudal fin distinct, rounded; vertebra^ in large number, 32 to 45. Carnivorous coast fishes, mostly of the warm seas, some of them aacend- iug rivers; the young of some or all the species fasten themselves to rocks by means of an adhesive ventral disk, which soon disappears. In some Hj»ecies the spin
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