. The fishes of North Carolina . Fishes. SYSTEMATIC CATALOQUB OP FISHES. 345 i. Shell or carapace with a large spine at end of each ventral ridge; carapace deficient behind dorsal fin; color olive gray, nearly every plate with a small pale blue ^ot at its center. trigomis. a. Shell or carapace without spines; carapace continuous behind dorsal fin; color dark brown, with numerous small, circular, yellow-white spots triqueter. (Ladophrys, milk-cow eyebrow, in allusion to the horns in one species.) 297. LAOTOPHRYS TRIGONXTS (Linneeus). Oamel-fish; Box-fish; Trunk-fish; Shell-fish. Ostracium trigo
. The fishes of North Carolina . Fishes. SYSTEMATIC CATALOQUB OP FISHES. 345 i. Shell or carapace with a large spine at end of each ventral ridge; carapace deficient behind dorsal fin; color olive gray, nearly every plate with a small pale blue ^ot at its center. trigomis. a. Shell or carapace without spines; carapace continuous behind dorsal fin; color dark brown, with numerous small, circular, yellow-white spots triqueter. (Ladophrys, milk-cow eyebrow, in allusion to the horns in one species.) 297. LAOTOPHRYS TRIGONXTS (Linneeus). Oamel-fish; Box-fish; Trunk-fish; Shell-fish. Ostracium trigomts Linnffius, Systema Naturse, ed. x, 330,1758; "India", Oatraaion trigonum, Jordan, 1886, 30; Beaufort. Jenkins, 1887, 93; Beaufort. Lactophrys trigonua, Yarrow, 1877, 204; Fort Macon. Jordan & Gilbert, 1879, 367; Beaufort. Jordan & Ever- mann, 1898,1723, pi. ccbdii, fig. 641. Diagnosis.—Body sharply 3-angled, the back elevated into a well marked, strongly conv pressed hump; depth .5 length; head .25 length, the profile straight; pedimcle long and slender, its depth less than diameter of eye; each ventral ridge terminating in a long spine which extends beyond origin of anal fin; shell open behind dorsal fin; a conspicuous ridge over each eye; dor- sal rays 10; anal rays 10; caudal with rounded corners. Color: olive gray above, light green on ventral surface; most of the side plates with a light blue spot in the center; outlines of upper plates black, of lower ones blue; several dusky areas on side; fins pale green; vent, iris, nostrils, and base of pectorals yellow, {trigonus, three-angled.). Fig. 155. Camel-fish; Trunk-fish. Lactophrys trigonus. A common West Indian species, well known in Florida and sometimes found as far north as Massachusetts.* It has occasionally been reported from Beaufort, N. C. Yarrow recorded 2 specimens from the beach at Fort Macon; a specimen in the State Museum at Raleigh came from Beaufort; and Jenkins states, on the authority
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