. 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. Is' X It In? I m Hi P ! P I» i ;â I ft Si: 11 i: li: ! I ;! 'I I I: 'I [. 2544 Btdletin , United States National Museum. on vomer. No spines on snout or opercles. GUI membranes somewhat united, freo from isthuiuj. Gill rakers slender, rather long, 10 to 12 on lower part â f arch. Scales very small, mostly lost posteriorly (in our specimen) and not to bo exactly counted
. 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. Is' X It In? I m Hi P ! P I» i ;â I ft Si: 11 i: li: ! I ;! 'I I I: 'I [. 2544 Btdletin , United States National Museum. on vomer. No spines on snout or opercles. GUI membranes somewhat united, freo from isthuiuj. Gill rakers slender, rather long, 10 to 12 on lower part â f arch. Scales very small, mostly lost posteriorly (in our specimen) and not to bo exactly counted; lateral line not evident. First dorsal rather low and l->ng, none of its rays produced, the longest abo'it \ head; ventrals filamentous, \ head; pectorals about \ head; caudal 2ii hoad; anai deeply notched behind the middle, its posterior lobe high- esi;. Color uniforin purplinb black, the fins paler. One young individual, 2i inches long, from Alhairoi^ Station 299S, oft' the Revillagigedo Islands. {vercmmAui, modest.) Lepidion verecundum, Jordan &. Crameh, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas. 1896,456, Revillagigedo Islands, at Albatross Station 3993. (Coll. Albatross.) 984. ANTIMORA, Giinther. Antimora, GOnthkh, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1876, 2 (rostrata). This grotip dift"ers from Lepidion in the form of the snout, the backward position of the vent, the imperfect division of the .anal, in which latter respect it approaches Mora. In Lepidion the snout is stibconical, obtusely rounded; in Aniimora it forms n flat, triangular lamina, sharply keeled at the sides, resembling the snout of Macrourus. Bodj' eloi rjate, compressed, tiipering into a slender tall. Scales very smuU. Head entirely scaly, even to tl\^ gill membranes. Snout depressed, thin and flat, projecting beyond the mouth; mouth rather large; chin with a barbel; jaws with bands of villiforin teeth; a small roundish patch of teeth on vomer, none on palatines. Dorsal fins 2, the first short, its anterior ray produced int
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