. 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 —Fishes of North America. 823 • . Ilody leKH alcndor, depth 73'-j in loiiKtIi; Hvulea in latoriil lino ir>0 to 170. AKOENTKA, 1204. 11'. lludy very slondur, duptli 9 or Iir in IcuKth; acules in lateral lino MM. »:.NA, 1205. lion. S1MIYR1:NA PICIJDA, nioci' > cient name, )rliit, (irigin of land, Proc. Ac. (Grkat KAitnArriiA; P
. 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 —Fishes of North America. 823 • . Ilody leKH alcndor, depth 73'-j in loiiKtIi; Hvulea in latoriil lino ir>0 to 170. AKOENTKA, 1204. 11'. lludy very slondur, duptli 9 or Iir in IcuKth; acules in lateral lino MM. »:.NA, 1205. lion. S1MIYR1:NA PICIJDA, nioci' > cient name, )rliit, (irigin of land, Proc. Ac. (Grkat KAitnArriiA; Picuua; Reouna.) HcikI .'{; depth 2 in lusad ; eye rather hmi. 11, about 6 in head, equal to widtl) of interorhital area. D. V-I, 9; A. 1,9; xcaleH 10-75 to 85-10, the ciiitss Hcries counted t'roni lateral line to front of dorual and anal fins resiitt'tively. Body oblong, slightly compressed, covered with largo scales. IKiil lai}i;e; maxillary large; nearly \ length of head, J*s posterior margin rciicliiiig J>a8t front of orbit. Lower Jaw with (leshy ' .p, bluntly conical. Iiitcioi'bital area concave, with a shallow median groove (as wide as pupil, at ]M)sterior edge of orbit), divided by a ridge in front and behind. Supra- ocular ridge bony and striate. Preociilar ridge present. Teeth large ; pro- iiii'.xiilary teeth small, little compressed, irregularly set, nearly uniform in si/^f, somewhat thicker and shorter posteriorly ; prcmaxillary with two piiirs of very large compressed teeth, their length more than half width of pupil: anterior ones directed downward, posterior ones downward and backward; teeth in lateral series of lower jaw small anteriorly, increas- ing gradually backward, when they nearly e<|ual those on palatines; pal- iitinc teeth similar to those on lower Jaw, arranged in reversed order. Distance from tip of snout to front of dorsal 2f in body ; second dorsal spine longest, 1^ in snout; second dorsal and anal equal; anal inserted under lirst third of
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