. 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 Everniann.—Fishes of North America. 2539 side of a depressed sphenoidal groove, and Las an ovat(^ cardiform shape; the paraocoipital or epiotic is not produced into an angle behind, but is obtusely ronnded, and its posterior or outivardly descending ridge blunt: the opistliotic is well developed, oblong, and with its reentering angle high up, and, ou a line with
. 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 Everniann.—Fishes of North America. 2539 side of a depressed sphenoidal groove, and Las an ovat(^ cardiform shape; the paraocoipital or epiotic is not produced into an angle behind, but is obtusely ronnded, and its posterior or outivardly descending ridge blunt: the opistliotic is well developed, oblong, and with its reentering angle high up, and, ou a line with it, the surface is divided into 2 parts—a narrow and a flattened ouo, and a lower expanded one, much swollen; the alisphenoid or prootio is oblong, acutely eniarginate in front, swollen from tihe region of the high anterior sinus, and above a little produced forward; the great frontal is a little longer than broad, with supraoccipital crest continued forward on the bone, and n«^ar the front expanded upward, and with the expanded portion behind dividing into narrow lateral wings; the lateral testiform ridges of the frontal are continued forward and curved outward toward the antero-lateral angles; the anterior frontals are mostly covered in front by the great frontal, and are much developed in the direc- tion of the antero-lateral angles, the inferior expanded axillary portion being very narrow; the nasal has a rounded ridge in front, continued well below, and its posterior crest is laminar and trenchant. Species American; valued as food, {/mnpoi, small; yaSoi, Gadus.) a. Second anal with 21 or 22 rays; snout rather long; hody semitranslucent; first anal and pale; body scarcely blotched with blackish. proximus, 2907. aa. Second anal with 16 to 20 rays; snout shorter; body opaque; first aual and ventrals dusky; body blotched above with blackish. tohcod, 1. 2907. MICBOQADUS PROXIMUS (Girard). (California Tomcod.) Head 34^in body; depth 5. D. 14-18-18 to 21; A
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