. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. THE SHORE FISHES OF PERU 405 in head; teeth in each jaw in an outer series of rather strong teeth, not extending to angle of mouth, followed anteriorly by a band of small pointed teeth; vomer with a few minute teeth; palatines with a series of somewhat compressed teeth, larger than the lateral teeth in jaws; both lips minutely fringed; a rather long simple (undivided) tentacle, about as long as pupil, behind the very short tube of anterior nostril; tentacle over eye simple, rather smaller than the one behind nostril; dorsal fin beginning
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. THE SHORE FISHES OF PERU 405 in head; teeth in each jaw in an outer series of rather strong teeth, not extending to angle of mouth, followed anteriorly by a band of small pointed teeth; vomer with a few minute teeth; palatines with a series of somewhat compressed teeth, larger than the lateral teeth in jaws; both lips minutely fringed; a rather long simple (undivided) tentacle, about as long as pupil, behind the very short tube of anterior nostril; tentacle over eye simple, rather smaller than the one behind nostril; dorsal fin beginning about halfway between posterior margin of eye and margin of preopercle, only moderately notched, the spinous part not greatly elevated anteriorly, not bearing membranous flaps, the third to fifth longest, , in head; soft part of dorsal notably shorter than spinous part, its longest rays scarcely shorter than the longest spines; caudal slightly attached by broad membranes to dorsal and anal, rather broadly convex, only about as long as postorbital part of head; anal long and low, without well differentiated spines, its base , in length; ventral moderately long, narrow, the rays not widely separated, nor with broad membranes between them, the. Figure 78.—Emblemaria tortugae, new species. From the type, 60 mm. long, Tortuga Bay, Peru ( No. 128221). two longest ones distally free, the middle ray longest, about as long as head without snout, , in length; pectoral rather broad, the longest rays in lower half of fin, , in head, , in length. Color brownish; back with seven or eight irregular dark cross blotches enclosing some of the lighter ground color; middle of side with about eight irregular dark spots, the next to the last one elongate; sides with many other dark points and lines enclosing more or less definitely diamond-shaped light areas; lower surface of head with four or five dark cross stripes; dorsal fin anteriorly largely dusky,
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