Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries . SO OSTEOLOGY K TILE-FISH. 85 and the supraoccipital extended forward between the frontals and produced backward between the exoccipitals to the foramen magnum. Furthermore, the thoracicregion is sharply marked oil* from the caudal, while in Malacanthus it is. as i( were,continued into the caudal portion of the vertebral jaro. Cranium of Lopholatilus, left lateral aspei therefore seem best to separate Malacanthus opo its allies and It would therefore seem best to separate Malacanthus from the threeother genera and consider them as forming the famil
Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries . SO OSTEOLOGY K TILE-FISH. 85 and the supraoccipital extended forward between the frontals and produced backward between the exoccipitals to the foramen magnum. Furthermore, the thoracicregion is sharply marked oil* from the caudal, while in Malacanthus it is. as i( were,continued into the caudal portion of the vertebral jaro. Cranium of Lopholatilus, left lateral aspei therefore seem best to separate Malacanthus opo its allies and It would therefore seem best to separate Malacanthus from the threeother genera and consider them as forming the family Latilidse,, as proposed bvDoctor Gill. A still more marked difference exists between Latilus andIInIIn/must, /• in the fact that thelatter docs not possess a myo-dome and also lacks the basi-sphenoid. The skull of Bathy-mastt r is smooth, depressed, andhas a small supraoccipital shutout from the foramen magnum;the vertebral column comprisesIf thoracic and 38 caudal ver-tebrae besides a Hemivertebra,this being double the numberfound in any of the arrangement of the para-pophyses in Bathymaster is alsoquite different from that in theother genera; there is a closedcanal beneath the eleventh to
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