Archive image from page 21 of The deep-sea fishes [of the. The deep-sea fishes [of the Hawaiian Islands] deepseafishesofh00gilb Year: 1905 582 BULLETIN OF THE TTNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. Family :RII)-:. Chimaera purpurescens, new speries. Fig. 2M1. Type, a female, 90 em. long, from tation 41SH, vicinity of Kauai, depth 957 to l,0(i7 fathoms; type, No. 51.''i9L', V. S. Nat. Mus. Hea<l anil body very robust, deep and , di-pth in length measured to end of .secoml dorsal tin; snout high and , without appendages, protruding beyond nostrils for a
Archive image from page 21 of The deep-sea fishes [of the. The deep-sea fishes [of the Hawaiian Islands] deepseafishesofh00gilb Year: 1905 582 BULLETIN OF THE TTNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. Family :RII)-:. Chimaera purpurescens, new speries. Fig. 2M1. Type, a female, 90 em. long, from tation 41SH, vicinity of Kauai, depth 957 to l,0(i7 fathoms; type, No. 51.''i9L', V. S. Nat. Mus. Hea<l anil body very robust, deep and , di-pth in length measured to end of .secoml dorsal tin; snout high and , without appendages, protruding beyond nostrils for a about equaling diameter of orbit; eye large, nearly cireular, the diameter of exposed portion very slightly exceeding the interorbital width, which is the length of head; front of eye midway in length nf head; distance from nostrils to tip of snout contained times in length of head; anterior dental himin;i' of upper jaw with 7 enamel rods on each siile the median line; first and second enamel rods on each side of median line in lower jaw very widely spaced, ending in ai'ute jioints with deeply- concave border between tliem, the length of the points slightly exceeding auterior lamina' of upjier jaw; four sensory canals intersect at a ])oint vertically below hinder margin of orbit: one canal runs upward an<l backward from point of intersection in direction of dorsal spine, meeting, almost at right angles on level of upjier rim of orbit, a line descending fi-om the nape; posteriorly to the point of union, the latter describes a sharp curve with the convexity directed downward, and then becomes the lateral line, the undulations of which are few and faint. llnrsal spine com|iaratively slender and nearly straight, containing no postci'ior groove, and not KiG. 2'M.— jutrpunsi-niti CillnTt. iii'W ;;. Type. serrate along posterodateral angles; the soft rays are attacheil nearly to its tip, as can be made out by the torn membrane adhering to it; anterio
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