. 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. I <'A Jordau and Evcrmann.—Fishes of North Avicrica. .SI 77 Page lbx2. H^foro X\jr»\n, Jonlati, insert: •-•»•-»•-• ( I»OKATK<'OKIS. \ Miirsh. lliMil L'.ti; (leptli ){. I; I; suniit ); iiiaxilliiry 4; iiiterorltital ; ii. |\, l(t; , !i; pectoral !.(!; ventral '; randal LO; scales l-2»5-(). moderately elongate, compressed througi
. 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. I <'A Jordau and Evcrmann.—Fishes of North Avicrica. .SI 77 Page lbx2. H^foro X\jr»\n, Jonlati, insert: •-•»•-»•-• ( I»OKATK<'OKIS. \ Miirsh. lliMil L'.ti; (leptli ){. I; I; suniit ); iiiaxilliiry 4; iiiterorltital ; ii. |\, l(t; , !i; pectoral !.(!; ventral '; randal LO; scales l-2»5-(). moderately elongate, compressed througiiout; the Itack a little ( |r\ :itcd, the can<lal peduncle deep an<l ratlier lon^; dorsal and ventral oiillines neiirly alike, the dorsal somewhat more strongly arched; anterior ludiili not trenchant, almost straight Irom snout to front of dorsal, very sli'fhtly convex in front of dorsal and very slightly concave hetween eye jiiiil tijt of snout; head pointed, interorhital space broad and tlat; eye , liigli in position, middle of pupil nearer tip of snout than end of (iliciclc; snout long, somewhat longer than ut not distinctly different from them; a few smaller teeth behind the iiiaiu row of large ones; vomer and palatines toothless; soft dcu-sal iind aiial each with a basal sheath of about two rows of large scales, that (>f dorsal extending over half the fin or more, that of anal lower, the tins (itliirwise naked; dorsal tin continuous, with a shallow notch, the spines slt'iidcr and pungent, the second longer than the tirst, the following ones },'railiiated to the lifth, which is shortest, thence increasing in length to till' ninth, which is longest, 2.;^ in head; soft dorsal with its middle rays liijihcst, in head; anal with three slender, sharp, graduated pines, the third longest, in head; the soft part similar to soft dorsal, longest rays *,;! in head; pectoral large, symmetrical, ot 11 rays, the middle ones lijest, reaching past tii&
Size: 1681px × 1487px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublisher, booksubjectfishes
