. 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. !; Job- £6, 128, bex Co. II; V. Inter- with Jordan and Evemiann.—Fishes of North America. 2583 strong spines, this bonier coutinued as a strong ridgo bolow eyo, extend- ing across opercle, this crest covered with coarse, spinous tubercles; mouth rather small, the maxillary reaching middle of eye; teeth very small, close set. Head with salient ridges above, covered with spi
. 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. !; Job- £6, 128, bex Co. II; V. Inter- with Jordan and Evemiann.—Fishes of North America. 2583 strong spines, this bonier coutinued as a strong ridgo bolow eyo, extend- ing across opercle, this crest covered with coarse, spinous tubercles; mouth rather small, the maxillary reaching middle of eye; teeth very small, close set. Head with salient ridges above, covered with spinous scales; 1 ridge above eye, toward upper angle of gill opening, another ridge along the vertex, nearly parallel with this above it, besides a short temporal ridge; vent far back, under seventh ray of secoiul dorsal. First dorsal not far behind eye, the long ray slightly serrulate; ventrals with a short filament. Scales each with a median crest of 3 to 5 spinules, other- wise almost unarmed. Five scales between lateral line and dorsal. (Col- lett.) Depths of the Atlantic. Known from 2 specimens, the type 9 inches long, from the mouth of Rio de la Plata, in 600 fathoms; the second, above described, about a foot long, from the banks of Newfoundland, in 1,267 fathoms. (0A05, wholly; rpa^vj, rough.) llacnirut holotrnehyi, OUnther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, ii, 1878, 24 mouth of Rio de la Plata in 600 fathoms; GCnthek, Challenger Keport, xxii, pi. 28, flg. B, 1887; Coixett, C'onipagues rHirondvlIe, 1804, 83, pi. 2, flg. 6; Goode & Bean, Oceunic Ich- thyology, 306, 1806. 2960. HAOROIIRUS BAIKDII, Goode & Bean. (Common Rat-tail.) Head 6^ in total length; depth 8; greatest width 13. D. II, 11-137; A. 120; P. 15; V. 7; scales 6-152-19 or 20. Body much compressed posteri- orly, tapering from first dorsal to tip of tail; scales irregularly polygonal, the free portions co"ered with transparent vitreous spines, arranged in from 10 to 12 irregular longitudinal rows. O
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