. Catalogue of the fishes in the ... Museum. 438 mugilidj:.. M. ooto-radiatus. and a third in the total length, the length of the head five times and a fifth. The head is moderately high and broad, and has the snout somewhat produced, as in M. mu-atus. The interorbital space is convex, its width being contained twice and a thii'd in the length of the head. The upper lip is membranaceous, not thick, visible from above. The angle made by the anterior margins of the mandibles is somewhat more than a right one, and the cleft of the mouth is nearly half as deep as it is broad. The outermost extremi
. Catalogue of the fishes in the ... Museum. 438 mugilidj:.. M. ooto-radiatus. and a third in the total length, the length of the head five times and a fifth. The head is moderately high and broad, and has the snout somewhat produced, as in M. mu-atus. The interorbital space is convex, its width being contained twice and a thii'd in the length of the head. The upper lip is membranaceous, not thick, visible from above. The angle made by the anterior margins of the mandibles is somewhat more than a right one, and the cleft of the mouth is nearly half as deep as it is broad. The outermost extremity of the maxillary is visible between the angle of the mouth and the anterior angle of the praj- orbital; the latter is obliquely truncated, so that its front angle is very obtuse, whilst the postei-ior one is acute; its lower margin is denticulated. The free space at the chin, between the mandibles, is narrow, elongate, extending on to between the interopercles. The nostiils are close together, situated midway between the end of the snout and the orbit. Adipose eyelid none. There are twenty-five scales between the snout and the spinous dorsal fin ; the latter commences a little nearer to the snout than to the base of the caudal, vertically above the fourteenth scale of the lateral line ; its two anterior dorsal spines are of nearly equal length, and one-half of that of the head ; pointed scales extend along the whole length of its base. The soft dorsal fin is nearly as high as the former, and commences above the twenty-eighth scale of the lateral line, or above the second soft ray of the anal. The caudal is deeply forked, the length of a lobe being equal to that of the head. Anal fin as high as the spinous dorsal. The pectoral is inserted somewhat above the middle of the depth of the body, and extends to the twelfth scale of the lateral line, its length being equal to the distance of the posterior nostril from the end of the operculum; there is no pointed scale in its axil. T
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