. 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. flfWWSWSSPWP m 'H '. 'III i 44' 1532 Jhillctin ^y, Ignited Staics National Museum. lOSi!. liEBON IIASIIiAltlN, liill \. ItrauHfunl. Depth 2jt. D. XVI, 12; A. VII, 8. Head iioriual, snout above roiivex and blunt in front, length of snout little more than i length of head; interorbital area slightly raised; preoperculuni nearly vertical; buccal scales in 1 rows; Jaws normall
. 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. flfWWSWSSPWP m 'H '. 'III i 44' 1532 Jhillctin ^y, Ignited Staics National Museum. lOSi!. liEBON IIASIIiAltlN, liill \. ItrauHfunl. Depth 2jt. D. XVI, 12; A. VII, 8. Head iioriual, snout above roiivex and blunt in front, length of snout little more than i length of head; interorbital area slightly raised; preoperculuni nearly vertical; buccal scales in 1 rows; Jaws normally developed; supraniaxillary terminating at a vertical very little in advance of orbit; lips moderately developed and Irce all around; teeth of outer row of rather large size; dorsal lin mod- erately developed; anterior spines normally graduated, the rest subeqnal; soft rays when bent back extending nearly V) third of caudal; anal tin coninicuces under thirteenth dorsal s]dne, its lirst 3 spines rapidly anil the suc<'eeding moderately graduated; Inigest soft rays when bent back reaching second third of caudal; caudal 4^ or 4A times in extreme length, and its margin is convex-truncate; pectoral iin extending to verti- cal of third and ventral hn to that of fourth or lifth anal spine; caudal peduncle not much higher at base than long, and decreases very gradually to fin; ba<'k declines moderately to tail, an«l regularly decurved in front of dorsal fin. Color bronzed olive, with (in young, at least) 7 bands; in fourth band is developed a distinct blackish sjtot just under lateral line, and on base of caudal (in, above lateral line, is another, but smaller, black- ish spot; dorsal and anal fins dusky, but soft parts much darker at buse than on rest of their fins and surface; caudal fin also much darker at its basal third than behind; pectoral and ventral fins dusky and uniform, save tUiit the liJamentary rays of ventrals are darker. Lake Nicaragua. (Gill & Jir
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