. 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. â WW* "' ', Martinique. «iiitmm mncti-pauU, Gt'NTiiKit, Shore Fislien, 4, 1880, St. Paul Rocks. 383. PLECTRYPOPS, Gill. Pleclriipops, Gil,!,, Proc. Ac. Nat. Scl. Phila., 1802, 237, (). Tiiis genus differs from HolocentruH chiefly in having the preopcT-cle armed with three strong teeth curved forward. The preopercular s;)iiif- is moderate, and the third an
. 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. â WW* "' ', Martinique. «iiitmm mncti-pauU, Gt'NTiiKit, Shore Fislien, 4, 1880, St. Paul Rocks. 383. PLECTRYPOPS, Gill. Pleclriipops, Gil,!,, Proc. Ac. Nat. Scl. Phila., 1802, 237, (). Tiiis genus differs from HolocentruH chiefly in having the preopcT-cle armed with three strong teeth curved forward. The preopercular s;)iiif- is moderate, and the third anal spine not greatly developed. One species. (z'/.i/KTijov, spur; inb, below ; utp, eye.) 1242. PLECTRÂ¥P*'^S RETROSPIXIS (G^iichenot). Iload 2f in total length ; depth 2i D. XII, 14; A. Ill (?) or IV, 11. The infraorbital arch is armed beneath with three long spines, curved and directed forward; the spines of the preorbital and of the posterior part of the infraorbital arch with smaller spinous teeth. Hoth limbs of the preoperculum denticulated, with a rather strong flat spine; oi»erculum and snboperculum armed with spinous teeth, the former with two long spines, the lower of which is the stronger. Spines of the tins rather slender; the soft portions of the dorsal and anal fins rounded, and as high as the spinous. Caudal forked; scales deeply serrated. Uniform red. Cuba. (Guichenot); rare. (j'eJHfl, spine; but the spines are directed forward.) Hol,,,nilnimrelra!<pini», Guicm NOT, in Bamon de !a Sagra, Hist. Cuba, :i'i, pi. 1, fig. 3,1850, Cuba. Jfo/'.,)i/n(»i/iro»|)iiio/(Hm, PoEv, Memorias, n, 343, 1861; after Guichenot. Siibstitiitc tuv retro- â¢â â¢IHiiis, aa the spines turn forward and not backward ; GI'ntiier, Cat., i, 49, â 1! i 1 1 â e-:: r- : s i' h Ht ^s'i â S?: ^k. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustratio
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