. 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. I. inv i â 1. i If' 1 1:1 I St 2C66 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum, colored side. As in other members of thin group, the lower jaw ih the longer, the npper teeth included. luterorhital space wholly scaled, with a very high, rather sharp '^-shaped ridge. Eyes very large, the upper entering larf>:ely into the upper profile, the lower niucJi in advance; front m
. 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. I. inv i â 1. i If' 1 1:1 I St 2C66 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum, colored side. As in other members of thin group, the lower jaw ih the longer, the npper teeth included. luterorhital space wholly scaled, with a very high, rather sharp '^-shaped ridge. Eyes very large, the upper entering larf>:ely into the upper profile, the lower niucJi in advance; front margin of upper orbit on vertical of front of lower pnp'l; diameter of upper eye 2*^ to 2^ in head. Anterior nostrils of both sides in rather long tubes, the ])08terior margins produced to form short ilaps. Preopercular margins adnate, as usual, concealed by scales. No conspicuous mucous excavations on blind sida. Gill rakers weak and rather short, 10 or 11 on anterior of arch. Scales very small, cycloid, in about IfiS cross rows, the tnbes of hiteral line much fewer, not regularly arranged; over 50 longi- tiulinal rows above lateral line. Dorsal beginning over posterior edge of pupil; fins low, the highest dorsal rays behind middle of body, I length of head; caudal rounded, 1.^ in head; pectorals 2 in head; ventrals small, e.'ich with .5 rays, as in Mierostomua pacijicua. {Oljiptoccphahia cifnoylosaim and zachiruK have 6 rays in each ventral.) Color of eyed side warm brown, darker toward margins, becoming black on vertical fins; every- where on body and tins coarsely blotched with light blue, the " arks so arranged on npper and lower thirds of sides as to form 5 broad bui* of bluish, alternating with those of the ground color, and correspondiag above and below; lips and branchiostegal membranes black; blind side dnsky brownish. This- well-marked species differs from the species of MhroKtomnx in its much greater depth and brigiii coloration, and in having teeth well develo
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