. 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. 2488 Bulletin 47, United States National B* 14:4-4-.! ;Hi with a black inargiii. Gill rakers 4; air bladder long, pointed, with a foramen. (Putnam.) Length 6 inches. Gulf of Mexico; recorded from Key West, Florida; not seen by us. (Named for Dr. John Edwards Hol- brook, the distinguished ichthyologist of Charleston.) ^Ophidian jotephi, Oirard, U. S. and Mex. Bound
. 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. 2488 Bulletin 47, United States National B* 14:4-4-.! ;Hi with a black inargiii. Gill rakers 4; air bladder long, pointed, with a foramen. (Putnam.) Length 6 inches. Gulf of Mexico; recorded from Key West, Florida; not seen by us. (Named for Dr. John Edwards Hol- brook, the distinguished ichthyologist of Charleston.) ^Ophidian jotephi, Oirard, U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., Icbth., 20,1859, St. Joseph Island, Texas; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis 793,1883; quite us liknly to be Jliasola margi- nata. Ophidium holbrooH, Putnam, Froo. Itost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1874, 342, Key West, Florida; Jordan & Gilbert, Syuopsis, 793,1883. 2867. OPHIDION GRAELLSI, Poey. Head 5| in body; depth 10; eye 3 in head; pectoral2|(; ventral scarcely as long as head. Body elongate, compressed; mouth large, the maxillary reaching to posterior margin of pupil; small teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines; eye very large, greater than length of snout; interorbital space f of eye, a sharp ridge along its middle to tip of snout, where it ends in a sharp spine; opercles unarmed; about 6 gill rakers developed on lower part of gill arch; apparently none above; psendobranchiie small, if pres- ent. Air bladder, injured in specimen examined, apparently lanceolate; dorsal and anal low, confluent with caudal, which ends in a point; pec- torals small, their ends scarcely reaching midway from their base to front of anal; ventrals with 2 fllamentous rays, the outer scarcely as long as head, the inner ^ as long. Color in spirits, reddish brown, with silvery reflections on sides; head silvery, upper part of eye black; fins the color of the body, with no dark edgings. Coasts of Cuba; rare. Here described from a specimen from Havana, Cuba, 2| inches in length, sent by Pro- fessor Poey.
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