. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Fisheries -- United States; Fish-culture -- United States. 74 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 101. Amia margaritophora (Bleeker). One specimen from Bacon (no. 4197: length in.). Head length; depth : eye 3 in head; dorsal vi-i, 9: anal n, 8; scales 3-25-7; teeth on palatines and vomer. Apogon margaritophorus Bleeker. Nat. Tijds. Ned. vn, ;i4. 363, Batjan. Amia margaritophorus Bleeker. Atlas, vn. 91, pi. ccci, fig. 4 Giinther, Cat., i. 234. 102. Apogonichthys mentalis Evermann & Scale, new species. Head i
. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Fisheries -- United States; Fish-culture -- United States. 74 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 101. Amia margaritophora (Bleeker). One specimen from Bacon (no. 4197: length in.). Head length; depth : eye 3 in head; dorsal vi-i, 9: anal n, 8; scales 3-25-7; teeth on palatines and vomer. Apogon margaritophorus Bleeker. Nat. Tijds. Ned. vn, ;i4. 363, Batjan. Amia margaritophorus Bleeker. Atlas, vn. 91, pi. ccci, fig. 4 Giinther, Cat., i. 234. 102. Apogonichthys mentalis Evermann & Scale, new species. Head in length; depth : eye in head: snout 4: interorbital equal : dorsal yt-i, 10; anal n. 12 (the small anterior anal spine broken oil' in type); scales probably about 28, deciduous. Body oblong, moderately compressed: depth of caudal peduncle in head: mouth large, the lower jaw the longer: maxillary in head, its distal end under anterior margin of pupil; mandible in head; minute teeth in jaws, none on vomer or palatines: 20 gillrakers on lower limb, the longest equal to pupil: no denticulations on preopercle; opercle with a single point: entire body covered with thin, very deciduous cycloid scales; lateral line probably complete, apparently a single row of scales on cheek: origin of spinous dorsal midway between tip of snout and axil of soft dorsal; longest dorsal spine in head: base of soft dorsal. Fig. 10.—Apogonichthys mentalis Evermann A- Scale, new species. Type. in head, its longest ray 2 in head; origin of anal under anterior third of soft dorsal, its longest ray in head, its base : ventrals below base of pectoral, their length in head: pectoral , the tip reaching beyond anal spines; caudal rounded. Color in spirits, yellowish white; 2 black longitudinal lines separated by pale yellow on side to below posterior end of soft dorsal; some dark dots on opercle, a shading of dusky at tip of snout and on tip of lower jaw: fi
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