. 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. 576 864. IIAHYNCOPELVH SPIMUSl'S (Htoindiichiivr). Head 4 to 4i^; depth 4 to 4^. D. 13; A. 19; scales 40-9. Hody Bhort, tlio Hiiont very short; eye large; scales ctenoid ; caudal spots 2 ; ventral spots more thau 4; posterolateral spot single; Hiipra-anal spots H, fonning iiii ohliiine series; anal spots 12 to 14; preoperculur


. 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. 576 864. IIAHYNCOPELVH SPIMUSl'S (Htoindiichiivr). Head 4 to 4i^; depth 4 to 4^. D. 13; A. 19; scales 40-9. Hody Bhort, tlio Hiiont very short; eye large; scales ctenoid ; caudal spots 2 ; ventral spots more thau 4; posterolateral spot single; Hiipra-anal spots H, fonning iiii ohliiine series; anal spots 12 to 14; preoperculur margin almost vertical. Open seas, known from the mid-Atlautic, Hawaiian Islands, etc. (Liit- ken.) (Mj>inoA'H«, sitinous.) Sciipi'lim »piii<iiiHii, Stkindaciinkk, Sit/gbi^r. Ichth. Nuti/.., v, II, 1HU7, China; , Situlia Atlautica, Scopoliui, 19, 18U2. 269. TARLETONBEANIA, Eigenniann &. Eigenmauu. Tiirlitonheania, Eiuenhann & Kigknmann, I'ruc. Cal. Ac. 8ci., iv, IKDO, 7 Uviiuii). This genus is close to Mtjctophum, ditlering chietly in the entire absence of the lateral line. (Named for iJr. Tarleton Hoffman ikau, Ichthyologist of the United States National Museum, who has written largely on deep- yea fishes and on the fishes of the eastern Pacific.) 11. Vontriil uutlino iiioro arched tliaii the durDal; vcntrulR nhort, nut roachiiig halfway to vent. , H(i6. 11(1. Ventral and dorsal outlinoH abuut oqually archud; vuutruU reaching halfway to hevoiith aual ray. tenuih, »06. 865.' TABLETONBEANIA CBENULABIS (Jordan & (iilhurt). Head 3|; depth i\. Eye large, 3i^ iu head. D. about 12; A. about l(i; scales about 45. Caudal spots probably 2, making with the anal and postlateral spots a series of 21; 6 ventral spots. Body much com- pressed, bluntly convex anteriorly, tapering behind. Caudal peduncle hjiig and very-slender; ventral outline more arched than dorsal. Head short and high, the snout very blunt. Scales of sides creuulate, those of


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