. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 402 BULLETIN : MUSEUM OP COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY (1896:960) elevated it to family status as the Steinegeriidae, a family closely related to the Bramidae. No figure of 8. ruhescens has heretofore been published, and although the Steinegeriidae was retained as a family by Jordan and his co-authors { Jordan, Evermann and Clark 1930:266), other writers, who have been unable to determine the proper position of S. rubc^ccnft from the description alone, have treated Steinegeria as a dubious genus of Figure 3. Holot
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 402 BULLETIN : MUSEUM OP COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY (1896:960) elevated it to family status as the Steinegeriidae, a family closely related to the Bramidae. No figure of 8. ruhescens has heretofore been published, and although the Steinegeriidae was retained as a family by Jordan and his co-authors { Jordan, Evermann and Clark 1930:266), other writers, who have been unable to determine the proper position of S. rubc^ccnft from the description alone, have treated Steinegeria as a dubious genus of Figure 3. Holotype of Steinegeria ruhescens (Taractes (Taractes) ru- hescens), mm. in standard length, from the Gulf of Mexico. (Drawn by Mildred H. Carrington.) The very poor condition of the type specimen is a handicap. The cheek bones and fins are partially digested and some elements are missing altogether. The spined scales are present, but the enlarged spines which occur on the caudal peduncle are evident on one side only. The distinctive preopercular spines which are diagnostic of the Madeiran, Gulf of Mexico, and Hawaiian juve- niles are absent from one preoperculum and are highly eroded on the other. The dorsal fin, said by Jordan and Evermann to be divided and thus of taxonomic merit, is composed of par- tiallv digested elements which bear indications that thev were. 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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