. 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. iNow; QOntiikr, ;b. Cat., VI, 27'J> Jordan and Evermann.âFishes of North America. 731 Ventral fins large, posteriorly inserted, also used as orgaus of flight. Air bliidiler very large. No pyloric coeca. Species numerous in all warm seas, living mostly in the open water and swimming in large schools. The species are largely cosmopolitan and any of the existing forms may
. 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. iNow; QOntiikr, ;b. Cat., VI, 27'J> Jordan and Evermann.âFishes of North America. 731 Ventral fins large, posteriorly inserted, also used as orgaus of flight. Air bliidiler very large. No pyloric coeca. Species numerous in all warm seas, living mostly in the open water and swimming in large schools. The species are largely cosmopolitan and any of the existing forms may be exjiected to be found within our limits.* (^^uKotrof, sleeping outside, the ancient name of a certain fish, probably a Blennius, which was supposed to come out on tlie beach to sleep at night; it remains out in the Fucug wlien the tide goes down). ExociKxrg: II. Anal fln long, its baso a little less than that of the donal, its flnit ray nearly opiMisite first ray of dorsal; rays of anal 11 to 12. !>. Second ray of pectoral simple (as well as the first); third ray divided; fourth and fifth rays longest. 0. Second ray of pectoral about as long as first ray; yeiitral fins inserted midway between posterior margin of eye and base of caudal (t. e., end of last caudal vertebra). , 1080. cc. Second ray of {lectoral about half longer than first; ventral fins inserted midway between middle of preoperclu and last caudal vertebra. hondeleti, 1081. bb. Second ray of pectoral divided; first ray simple; third and fourth longest. <{. Origin of vontrals midway between posterior margin of orbit and lost caudal ver- tebra; ventrals chiefly black. ':, 1082. <hl. Origin of vontrals midway between posterior margin of preopercle and last caudal vertebra; ventrals pale, with a dusky shade in the axil. «. Pectoral fins not uniform in color, dark brown, with an oblique, whitish band which begins in the axil and runs obliquely backward to middle of fin; edges of pecto
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