. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 398 BULLETIN : MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY indeed so obscure and complicated, that but for the subsequent dis- covery of Brama longiplnnis, witli its similarly, though contrariwise, hooked scales, its true position, next to Brama, with analogies to many other families ( Zenidac, Caproidac, Scombridae), must have re- mained in abeyance.'' Immediately above his account of Taractes, Lowe described a similar fish, Brama longipiiinis. Later workers, for want of a better knowledge of Taractes aspcr, have considered th
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 398 BULLETIN : MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY indeed so obscure and complicated, that but for the subsequent dis- covery of Brama longiplnnis, witli its similarly, though contrariwise, hooked scales, its true position, next to Brama, with analogies to many other families ( Zenidac, Caproidac, Scombridae), must have re- mained in abeyance.'' Immediately above his account of Taractes, Lowe described a similar fish, Brama longipiiinis. Later workers, for want of a better knowledge of Taractes aspcr, have considered this species to be a young stage of T. longipinnis. This practice is no longer. Figure 1. Juvenile Taractes (Taractichthys) longipinnis, about 30 mm. in standard length. (Museu Municipal specimen no. 345; drawn by G. E. Maul.) appropriate. Mead (1957) has described a 74 mm. juvenile Taractes longipin7iis (with which he considered T. princeps identical), and a 30 mm. fish which can best be referred to this species (Fig. 1) was collected by Maul at Madeira and is now in the Museu Municipal, Funchal. These juveniles, and the pub- lished descriptions of adults of various sizes (Barnard, 1948 :374; Bigelow and Schroeder, 1929 ; Fitch, 1953 :539 ; Whitley, 1938 ; etc.) differ in several aspects from Lowe's type description of T. asper. His fish was said to have a spine-bearing preoperculum,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass. : The Museum
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