. 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. ?T^ i*'',',*"- â¢'* '^r"*''' â ;i: â ^1 M. lCfl4 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. 654. ANTIGONIA, Lowo. Au^iflroni'rt, LoWE, Prnc. Zoiil. Soc. Loud. 1843, 85 (cnpro*). Caprophoniiii, Mi'LLKii \-. 'I'ltosoiiKi,, ll()rii> lclitli,vol()j;icu', in, 28, 1845 (aurora). Tljipsinotux, Sc'iiLKdEi., Fauna Jnpouica, I'oiHH., \lii, 84, flg. 2,1847 {ruhi-tci'iti
. 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. ?T^ i*'',',*"- â¢'* '^r"*''' â ;i: â ^1 M. lCfl4 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. 654. ANTIGONIA, Lowo. Au^iflroni'rt, LoWE, Prnc. Zoiil. Soc. Loud. 1843, 85 (cnpro*). Caprophoniiii, Mi'LLKii \-. 'I'ltosoiiKi,, ll()rii> lclitli,vol()j;icu', in, 28, 1845 (aurora). Tljipsinotux, Sc'iiLKdEi., Fauna Jnpouica, I'oiHH., \lii, 84, flg. 2,1847 {ruhi-tci'iti). IJoily very deop, tho fh^pth imuih greater than length of body, is excessively coiiipreHsed and covered Avith moderate-sized, (inn, ron<;li ctenoid scales; ])rofile from najie to dorsal very steep and nearly straiffht. Surface of head above with roufih bony striic; preoporcle and suborbital bones armed with slender antrorse spines; mouth small, its cleft nearly vertical; premaxillary with a vi-ry long process, so that it is oxtremel.\ protractile, perhaps less so than in Capros; lower jaw projectin;f; np]ter jaw boroewhat'protractile; maxillary broad, scaly; small, very slemler teeth on jaws in 1 row, none on palate; chiu rough; preopercle with rough stria', becoming antrorse spines below; cheeks deep, covered witli rough sciilcs; operclo short, scaly. IJranchiostegals 6; gill membi;/incs separate, free from isthmus. Lateral line concurrent with the back. Fin spinos stiff and strong. Dorsals united, the third spine stout and ele- vated, tho sixth or last spine shortest, lower than the soft rays, the fin is thus distinctly notched. Soft dorsiil and anal similar, long and low, none of the rays i)roduced; anal spines 3, joined to the fm, the first longest. IJase of dorsal and anal with a sheath of small, rough scales extending on tho fiii spines and slightly on tho rays, not on tho mem- branes; caudal peduncle short and deep, deeper than long; caiidal short, siju
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