. 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. 759 Ht I riving to America, placed in two genera, Macrorhamphonus and Centri- «(,/;yv. (Centri8cid(e, part, genuH Centrixcita* Uiinther, III, 518-524, 18H1.) .1 iliMly oblong, graduating into tlie caudal peduncle; ha,Qk Htraiglit; dorHnI 8]>iiiPH al)out 7. Macbubiiami'Uobus, 343. 343- MACRORHAMPHOSUS, Lacdp^de. (Snipefishes.
. 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. 759 Ht I riving to America, placed in two genera, Macrorhamphonus and Centri- «(,/;yv. (Centri8cid(e, part, genuH Centrixcita* Uiinther, III, 518-524, 18H1.) .1 iliMly oblong, graduating into tlie caudal peduncle; ha,Qk Htraiglit; dorHnI 8]>iiiPH al)out 7. Macbubiiami'Uobus, 343. 343- MACRORHAMPHOSUS, Lacdp^de. (Snipefishes.) Minorhnmphomiii, Lao(:p£dk, HlBt. Nat, Poisa., v, 136, 1803, {comtUuii = iirolopax), Ceiitrisciiit, CuviER, B^gne Anini., Ed. i, ii, 350, 1817, {svolopwt; not Centrucus, L.). iUi', Gronow, Cat. FistieH, 147, 1854, (ncolopaje). (MhiMhiis, GlM,, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1802, 234, (reUlaru). Hudy oblong, graduating into the caudal peduncle; back straight; dor- gal HpineB about 7. Characters otherwise included above. (naKpbc, long; lidiidi'i, snout.) 1100. MACRORHAMPHOSUS SCOLOPAX (LlnniBug). (Snipefibh ; Trumpkt-fish ; Bellows-fish.) Head 2i; depth 3* to 4. D. V-12; A. 20; vertebrsR 8 +16. Body strongly compressed and somewhat elevated, covered with small striated locales, each stria terminating in a rather strong spine; second dorsal Hpine very strong, serrated posteriorly, its length about ^ total length of fish ; snout several times longer than the rest of the head. Rose red or rcildisli olive above, silvery on the sides and belly. Mediterranean Sea; occasional northward to southern England; accidental on our North Atlantic Coast. (scoJojjax, snipe.) (Eu.) ;;,i;i.«/.s scoJopux, Linn^us, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 1758, .320, Mediterranean. Sihtnis comntiw, Forbkal, DoBcr. Anim., 66, 1775, Marseilles. Cmtriscut scolopax, LiNN.£U8, Syst. Nat., Ed. xil, i, 415, 1706 ; GJntheb, Cat., iii, 518, 1801; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 388, irS7 1 I T Order AA. L
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