. Synopsis of the fishes of North America [microform]. Fishes; Poissons. 126. MALTHID^âHALIEUT^EA. 851 474. Poey. (Pooy, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 89: type Ualmitichthi/a reticulatus Poey.) Disk suborbicjilar, about as long as the rest of the body (including caudal fin); forehead with a transverse bonj- ridge, the cavity beneath it being without a tentacle; mouth rather small, inferior, the lower jaw nearly semicircular; teeth fine, on jaws and palate. Dorsal and anal fins with four rays each, {dkuu-rj^, lisher; i'/On^, fish.) 1314. H. aciileatus (Mitch.) Goode. Colo
. Synopsis of the fishes of North America [microform]. Fishes; Poissons. 126. MALTHID^âHALIEUT^EA. 851 474. Poey. (Pooy, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 89: type Ualmitichthi/a reticulatus Poey.) Disk suborbicjilar, about as long as the rest of the body (including caudal fin); forehead with a transverse bonj- ridge, the cavity beneath it being without a tentacle; mouth rather small, inferior, the lower jaw nearly semicircular; teeth fine, on jaws and palate. Dorsal and anal fins with four rays each, {dkuu-rj^, lisher; i'/On^, fish.) 1314. H. aciileatus (Mitch.) Goode. Color gray, reticulated with blackish; caudal with three blackish bands. Disk longer than wide and somewhat narrowed anteriorly; ridges armed with simple spines; five bicuspid spines on each lateral margin of the disk, and between them smaller, simple ones; five forming a pentagon before interorbital area; one over each orbit, and 4 on a ridge behind each orbit. D. 4; A. 4. {Gill.) Cuba to Southern Florida. h gray, whitish below. Disk orbicular, nearly as broad as long, its titlines i)rolonged on eacdi sid(^ in a strong spine, armed at tip with a group of spinelets; skin above with numerous stout, conical stel- lated spines, largest posteriorly ; a marginal series of dose-set spines, besides 5 to 7 on each carpal pe<luncle; outside of the rasirginal spinea is a row of 5 depressed, knifcvlike spines, each with a crown of three spinelets; these two rows of marginal spines coalesc/ing on the front edge of disk forming a bristling row, pointing in different direo- lions; small stellate prickles in the interspaces of the larger spines â . ' . 1 q * A. .â i"^^ '-'-in '^'k^P 'â -â ' .11 {. â m .\ '..y. l. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931; Gilbert, Char
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