. 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 Jordan and Evennann.—Fishes of North America. 2565 lirst dursal; anal much lower than dorsnl, the longest rays heing iu front, its third ray about \ as long au tirst ray of second dorsal; this (in inserted under the seventh ray of second dorsal; about 3 of the terminal anal rays might be considered caudal rays; pectoral inserted slightly iu advance of ventral, which
. 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 Jordan and Evennann.—Fishes of North America. 2565 lirst dursal; anal much lower than dorsnl, the longest rays heing iu front, its third ray about \ as long au tirst ray of second dorsal; this (in inserted under the seventh ray of second dorsal; about 3 of the terminal anal rays might be considered caudal rays; pectoral inserted slightly iu advance of ventral, which is iu about the san:e vortical with tlio origin of the lirst dorsal, second ray of pectoral slightly produce«l; length of pectoral equal to that of head without snout; ventral insertion distant from tip of snout a distance etiual to that of tirst dorsal from snout, the tirst and second rays tilainentous, the latter slightly the longer, and extending to the fifteenth or eighteenth ray of anal tin. Color brown; vertical tins bluish or black; peritoneum black; inside of gill covers and roof of mouth bluish. (Goode Si, Bean.) West Indies and Gulf of Mexico. Three specimens known; the type from near Martinique, (arouatua, arched.) Bathygadus arevatus, Uuodb & Bican, Bull. Mug. Coni|). Zool., xn, Ko. 5, 158, 1883, off Martinique, in 334 fathoms (Coll. Blake); Goode &. Bean, Oceanic Iclitliyology, 421, 1896. 2930. BATH¥<aDUS FAV08US, GoiHle \ l\mn. Head 5^ in total length; depth about 6; eye 5 in hrad; snout about 4. D. II, 9-125; A. 110; V. 9; P. 14; B. 7; scales 10-135-16. Body heavy, stout, the profile descending gradually and in a slight curve from first dor- sal to snout. Scales small, deciduous, cycloid, without armature; interor- bital area slightly convex, its gi^patest width about 3 in head; the postor- bital part of head 2f times as long as eye; snout broad, oblique, its width at the nostrils a little more than that of interorbital area; nostrils close to and
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