. 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. "7 â i > i n 1508 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum, reaching to tips of veutrnla, which roai^h past vent; origin of ventral Hjtiiiu about 6 BcalcH behind the vorti«!al from posterior edge of poctorul baHi. Caudal short, deeply forked., the upper lobo thr longer. Olivaceotis, witli brassy rotloctious and dusky points; tins plain. Length 18 inches. Tlio la
. 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. "7 â i > i n 1508 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum, reaching to tips of veutrnla, which roai^h past vent; origin of ventral Hjtiiiu about 6 BcalcH behind the vorti«!al from posterior edge of poctorul baHi. Caudal short, deeply forked., the upper lobo thr longer. Olivaceotis, witli brassy rotloctious and dusky points; tins plain. Length 18 inches. Tlio largest and least handsonin of the family, and the one of most value jih food. Coast of California, from Sun Francisco to San Diego, ratlicr com mon. (ro^cin/f, the East Indian an-ber flsh; from some obscure rt'suiu- blance.) Rhaeoehilua toxoten, AoASSi/, Am. .Tourn. 8ci. Arts, May, 1854, .107, San Francisco; Gcraii i < V. S. Puc. It. R. Surv., x, VMie», 188,1858. Pachylabrut variegatut, OiBUONS, Troc. Ac. Nat. Scl. I'bila., vii, July, 1854, 120, San Francisco. Ditrema toxoten, GCnther, Cat. Fialios, IV, 247. JihaeochUu$ tcxoUt, Jouoan & Oilubbt, Synopsis, 590; Eioenmann & Ulrey, 2. e., SOU. 6zx. HYPSURUS, Alexander Agassiz. Ilypmrua, Alexander Aoabsiz, Proc. Best. Soo. Nat. Hist., vtii, 1801,133 (). Body oblong, compreHsed, moderately elevated, tapering abruptly to a very slender and Hhort peduncle. Head moderate, rather acute, lower Jaw included. Lips rather large, entire, the lower with a frenum. Teeth few, conical, blunt, in 1 series, those of the upper jaw sometimes partly in '2 series. Gill rakers slender, rather short. Pharyngeals normal; anterior and lateral teeth of lower pharyngeals small, bluntly conic; a posterior patch of larger teeth, all but the posterior row truncate, the pos- t«!rior row conic. Dorsal tin rather low, the spines all lower than the soft rays. Caudal broad and short, widely forked. Anal fin extremely short, alt
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