. 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 Evermann.âFishes of North America. 2487 947. OPHIDION (Artecli) Linnwus. (CusK Eels.) OphiAxon (Artedi) Linn^us, , Ed. x, 259,1758 (harbatum'S. Ophidium, Linn^ub, Syst. Nat., £d. xii, 431, 1766, and of niuHt recent authors; chunked spelling. Body moderately elongate, compresaed; scalen small, usually not imbri- cated, but arranged in short, oblique ser
. 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 Evermann.âFishes of North America. 2487 947. OPHIDION (Artecli) Linnwus. (CusK Eels.) OphiAxon (Artedi) Linn^us, , Ed. x, 259,1758 (harbatum'S. Ophidium, Linn^ub, Syst. Nat., £d. xii, 431, 1766, and of niuHt recent authors; chunked spelling. Body moderately elongate, compresaed; scalen small, usually not imbri- cated, but arranged in short, oblique series, often ])liioed at right angles with each other, much as in Anguilla. Mead naked; teeth villiforui, those of the outer series more or less enlarged, noue of theui movable; teeth on vomer and palatines bluntish, some of them enlarged. Vent well behind pectorals. Opercle without distinct spine; sometimes (O. barbaium) a dis- tinct spine at tip of snout. Air bladder oblong-ovate, tapering behind, without foramen. Shore species mostly European. {Ophidium, an ancient name, from o^iStov, a small snake.) a. Gill rakers 4. b. Head 4J in length; depth 7; flns not dark edged. beani, 2855. bb. Head 6 in length; inner ray of ventral IJ in length of outer, which is shorter than head; tins dark-edged. holbhooki, 2856. aa. Gill rakers 6 or 7; head SJ to 6 in length; depth 8 to 10; color silvery, unspotted; fins not dark-edged; veutrals nearly as long as head. uraellsi, 2857. 8855. OPHIDION BEANI, Jordan & Gilbert. Head 4| in length; depth about 7. Head small, the profile not very obtuse; suout 4f in head; eye 3i, more than twice the narrow interorbital space; mouth oblique, the maxillary reaching to posterior border of pupil, 2 in head; lower jaw slightly included; teeth small, in narrow bands in the jaws, the outer series iu upper jaw somewhat enlarged; vomerine and palatine teeth small, subequal; head naked; snout spineless; opercle without spine; no evident pseudobranchia); gill
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