. 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. rr. I t 2326 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. to beyond oye. Teeth small, those 011 tlio palatiue largest; teoth of npper Jaw smaller thiiu those of the lower; auterior teeth of the lower jaw in iiboiit 2 series. Pectoral iius lou^, 1^ in head, reaching about to iifth anal ray; last rays of dorsal and anal fully joined to the caudal. Color olivaceous, with darke
. 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. rr. I t 2326 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. to beyond oye. Teeth small, those 011 tlio palatiue largest; teoth of npper Jaw smaller thiiu those of the lower; auterior teeth of the lower jaw in iiboiit 2 series. Pectoral iius lou^, 1^ in head, reaching about to iifth anal ray; last rays of dorsal and anal fully joined to the caudal. Color olivaceous, with darker blotches; first dorsal black; under parts pale; posterior portion of anal edged Avith dark. Pacifit; coast of North Amer- ica, from Punta Arenas to Panama; rare. (Named for Capt. Johu M. Dow, who obtained a tine specimen (now destroyed) from Panama.) Thalaitotilmjne dowi, Jordan &. Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. ,388, Punta Arenas (Type, No. ;t9085, D. S. Nat. Mils. Coll. Cornell University) j Jordan, Proo. Cal. Ac. Scl. 1890, 231, pi. 38. Suborder XENOPTEKYGII. (The Oling-fishes.) Breast with a broad sucking disk, between the wide-set ventral fins, this formed from the skin of the breast, not from the ventral fins them- selves. Ventral rays I, 4 or I, 5; no scales; no spinous dorsal; no sub- orbital ring; palatine arcade materially modified; no air bladder; verte- brio in increased numbers; gill arches redTiced. A well-marked group of small fishes, constituting a single family. (cdVos, strange; itrepv^, fin.) Family CXCIX. GOBIESOCID^E. (CUX(i-KISlIES.) Body rather elongate, tadpole-shaped, broad and depressed in front, covered by smooth, naked skin; mouth moderate; upper jaw protractile; teeth usually rather strong, the anterior conical or incisor-like; posterior canines sometimes present; suborbital ring wanting; no bony stay from suborbital across cheek; opercle reduced to a spine-like projection con- cctaled in the skin, behind the angle of the large preopercle,
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