. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 92 Bulletin Museum of Comparative Zoology, Vol. 142, No. 1. i Figure 69. Polyipnus nuttingi; modified from Gilbert, 1905. lower jaw smooth to slightly spinose; gill rakers short to medium with rough spinose internal surfaces; pigment in preservative dark dorsally and dark above anal photo- phores, dark pigment bar extends to mid- line; pigment in myomerelike striations on trunk, with definite pigment spots along posterior midline. Distribution (Fig. 63). Known from three localities in the Indian Ocean along the east A
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 92 Bulletin Museum of Comparative Zoology, Vol. 142, No. 1. i Figure 69. Polyipnus nuttingi; modified from Gilbert, 1905. lower jaw smooth to slightly spinose; gill rakers short to medium with rough spinose internal surfaces; pigment in preservative dark dorsally and dark above anal photo- phores, dark pigment bar extends to mid- line; pigment in myomerelike striations on trunk, with definite pigment spots along posterior midline. Distribution (Fig. 63). Known from three localities in the Indian Ocean along the east African coast from the equator to 30°S; reports of P. spinosus from this area may represent P. indicus. Polyipnus nuttingi Gilbert Figure 69 Pohjipmts mittingi Gilbert, 1905: 609 (holotype USNM 51599; Hawaii; seen); Fowler, 1949: 42; Haig, 1955: 321; Schultz, 1961: 640; 1964: 247. Species distinction. See F. oluolus (p. 90) und P. indicus (p. 91). Description. D. (12) 13-14; A. 15-16; P. 13-14; total gill rakers (21) 22-24; verte- brae Largest specimen less than 65 mm SL; body broad, tapering to long narrow caudal peduncle; post-temporal spine stout, rel- atively short (less than one-half eye diam- eter), slightly spinose dorsally; frontal ridges more vertically oriented than P. indicus and minutely spinose; preoperck spine short, curving anteriorly; abdominali keel scales with multiple spines; these scales extend well below ventral bod>i( margin; post-temporal spine length less than one-half the distance from its base to point of dorsal blade; subcaudal ; smooth; supra-abdominal photophores ar- ranged in a straight line, steplike arrange- ment; the three supra-anal photophoret separated slightly but definitely from ana. photophore group; jaws large; teeth mi- nute; undersurface of lower jaw markedl) spinose; gill rakers long, spinose on interna surface; dorsal spine high; pigment ir preservative similar to P. indicus, althougl dorsal pigment bar is longer
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