. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 85.—Halieutwa stellata. After Temminck and Schlegel. branchiae only on the second and third arches, and a dorsal fin withfive or six ra3s. Other examples of the genus are the Malthopsismitnger and Malthopsis Fig. 36.—HaUeutwa coccinca. After Alcock. The longest known of the PTalieutine genera is Halieutwa typifiedby the Halieutaa stellata of the Chino-Japanese waters. But littleis known of its habits, and by Jordan and Sindo (1902) it was de- 594 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1908. clared to be, a
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 85.—Halieutwa stellata. After Temminck and Schlegel. branchiae only on the second and third arches, and a dorsal fin withfive or six ra3s. Other examples of the genus are the Malthopsismitnger and Malthopsis Fig. 36.—HaUeutwa coccinca. After Alcock. The longest known of the PTalieutine genera is Halieutwa typifiedby the Halieutaa stellata of the Chino-Japanese waters. But littleis known of its habits, and by Jordan and Sindo (1902) it was de- 594 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1908. clared to be, along the coast of Japan, not very common, but never-theless dried specimens, 2 or 3 inches long, may be occasionallyfound in the boxes of shells and other animal curiosities exported byChinese. A distinctive name has been given by Japanese fishermen—Akogutsu, meaning red shoe. The genus is distinguished by thecombination of a toothless palate and the development of a half-gill on the fourth branchial arch (2, ^). Other species of the genus are the Halieutma coc-cinea, li. nigra, and of the IndianOcean, found at depthsof 123 to 265 Halieutine, nextto the Ilalieutcea stel-lata longest known, isthe Halieutichthys acu-leatus, first imperfectlydescribed as a Lophi
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