. 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. .»iaKi j|H|| 1784 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museiun. ridges. Gill rakers 8l«-nder, 2 iu orbit, 23 or 24 on anterior limb of lirat Jirclj. Dorsal (iu rathor low, the spines delicate, the iKth longest, 2i to '1\ in head, the set-ond about equal to the eleventh, the twelfth about li in the thirteenth, the metnbrano rathor deeply incised anteriorly and reach ing abou
. 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. .»iaKi j|H|| 1784 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museiun. ridges. Gill rakers 8l«-nder, 2 iu orbit, 23 or 24 on anterior limb of lirat Jirclj. Dorsal (iu rathor low, the spines delicate, the iKth longest, 2i to '1\ in head, the set-ond about equal to the eleventh, the twelfth about li in the thirteenth, the metnbrano rathor deeply incised anteriorly and reach ing about halfway up the thirteenth spine; soft rays about e?»80 nearly 3 in their length, the median rays long- est; ventrals not reaching vent, about 1^^ in pectorals. Scales on body, opercles, and interorbital space strongly ctenoid, those on mandibles, max- illaries, and most of those on cheeks cycloid; ])reorbital and snout with minute scales; accessory scales few. Color in alcohol, dark reddish brown, mottled with lighter; top of head nearly black; a dark stripe on edge of lower jaw, another on maxillary; a dark-brown band from ])ro- orbital downward and backward to posterior edge of preopercle; a broader band from posterior rim of orbit backward and downward across pre- opercle and opercle; tins all dusky, the dorsals somewhat mottled; peri- toneum black. Coast of Alaska, rare; not recently noticed except about Kadiak. The above description is taken from 3 s})ocimen8, 5^^ to .'i'f inches long, from Kadiak, in the possession of the Alaska Commercial Company. No others have been obtained since the time of Pallas and Tilesius. {viliu- tua; cUiiim, eyelid, with the lashes.) EpinepheluM «7ia<H»/ Tilesius, M6m. Ac. Sci. St. Potersb., iv, 1810,474, "Camtschaticus et Americanus;" no speciflc locality given, probably from about Kadiak. I'erea vanabilitt, Pallas, Zoojjr. in, 241,1811, Aleutian Islands. (Typo in luuseiini of Berlin; red specimeua of Sebnitod
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