. 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. N .' Jordan and Evermann.âFishes of North America. 974. RIYULUS MABH0RATU8, Poey. 063 Diners from ^{vvXhs cylindraceua in having the dorsal farther back, the (liHtanco of its insertion from the tip of caudal beingeqnal to its distance fioiii edge of opercle; the anal appearing more advanced. Body dashed witli light and dark spots; a black caadal'' ocellus. Cuba. (Poey.) (i


. 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. N .' Jordan and Evermann.âFishes of North America. 974. RIYULUS MABH0RATU8, Poey. 063 Diners from ^{vvXhs cylindraceua in having the dorsal farther back, the (liHtanco of its insertion from the tip of caudal beingeqnal to its distance fioiii edge of opercle; the anal appearing more advanced. Body dashed witli light and dark spots; a black caadal'' ocellus. Cuba. (Poey.) (iiKirworafiia, marbled.) UiniliiH marmoratits, PuKY, Aualea de Hist. Nat. Espana, ix, 248, 1880, Cuba. 303. LUCANIA, Girard. iitiaiiiit, GiBAnp, Proc. Ac. Nat. Scl. Pbila., 1859, 118, (venusta); not Liwamu, a gonuit of l)potle8. Mody oblong, compressed; lower jaw prominent, the cleft of the mouth Kliort and very oblique. Mouth moderate, the snout not produced; each JiMv with a single series of conical teeth. Scales very large. Gill open- iiii. Body coinpurativoly ulongato, the depth 4% to 5 in length, the form approaching tliat of JUrnhin. h. Ilody without blacic longitudinal l)and in either sex, the female with a caudal ocellus as in lliviiht»; an otHtlluR alKivo front of anal; cleft of mouth vi'ry nhort and nearly vertical; dorsal rays 7; anal 8; depth 6 in length. ohmata, hh. Body in both sexes with a black longitudinal band from eye to the black caudal spot; male with the basal half of dorsal and anal black, the flns with red in life. Depth 414 in length. D. 9; A. 9; scales 30-7. , 970. (Id. H(i<ly comparatively short and deep, the depth 3J4 to Z% in length, the form approaching that of Cjfprinodou; body in both sexes without black longltu<liuaI band or black ocelli; the fins in male with orange, the dorsal in male with a large black spot at biise in front. <â . Body more oblong, the depth 3% to 3J^ in length. D. 11 or 12; A. 9 or 10; scales 26-8.


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