. 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. Jordan and Evermann.—Fishes of North America. 669 88«. LAMPANYCTU8 ALATUS, Qoodo k D<'an. Head 3}; depth 5; eye 3; snout uearly 2 in eye. D. 13; A. 17 or 18; scales 32-33. Least depth of tail about \ greatest height of body. Snout short; upper and lower profile deeply curved, and with a median crest. Mouth large; length of upper jaw eciual to greatest depth of body. Ori
. 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. Jordan and Evermann.—Fishes of North America. 669 88«. LAMPANYCTU8 ALATUS, Qoodo k D<'an. Head 3}; depth 5; eye 3; snout uearly 2 in eye. D. 13; A. 17 or 18; scales 32-33. Least depth of tail about \ greatest height of body. Snout short; upper and lower profile deeply curved, and with a median crest. Mouth large; length of upper jaw eciual to greatest depth of body. Origin of dorsal nearer to tip of snout than to root of caudal; pectoral I'lu very long, reaching to at leaut middle of anal buse; ventral short, not reaching to origin of anal; anal origin under end of dorsal; caudal moderate and deeply forked. A small phosphorescent body on the upper and lower edges of the tail at the root of the caudal; length of lower patch a little greater than diameter ef eye. Mediolateral pbotophores 2; posterolaterals 2, the latter one above the other or nearly so. Precaudals in two groups, 2 -|- 1 or 3 -f 1, the last at the end of the lateral line. Posterolaterals nearly under soft dorsal. Number of superanals 7 -f 6. Three specimens taken by the Albatroaa from station 2393, in 28° 43' N. latitude, 87° 14' W. longitude, 525 fathoms. (Uoode <& Bean.) (a/a/us, winged.) Liwipanyclua atatuii, Goode & Bkan, Oceanic Ichthyology, 7!), 1895, Gulf Stream, (Type, No. 43769. Coll. Albatross.) v/ 887. LAMPANTeiUS OUNTHERI, Goo<le & Bo»n. Ilead3j; depth 5^; eye nearly 4. D. 13; A. 13; scales 36. Body much compressed. Least depth of tail i greatest depth of body. Snout short, about i diameter of eye. Mouth oblique, very large, the maxilla extend- in<r nearly to angle of preoperculum; maxilla very little dilated posteri- orly. Length of upper jaw about i that of head. Dorsal origin a little nearer to tip of snout than to root of ventral, immed
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