. Fig. 55. Pogonolycus elegans. Holotype. x 1. The specimen sketched in water-colours by Mr E. R. Gunther (St. WS 97) had been in formalin for several days, but its colours did not appear to have altered. It was brought up in the trawl among colonies of Cep/ialodiscus. Genus Platea, Steindachner 1898, Zool. Jahrb., Suppl. iv, p. 323; Regan, 1913, Trans. R. Soc. Edinb., xlix, p. 247. Type P. insignis, Steindachner. Skin naked. Body elongate, compressed. Snout and lower jaw with dermal processes. Mouth subterminal; teeth incisor-like, uniserial in both jaws; palate toothless. Gill- opening cleft
. Fig. 55. Pogonolycus elegans. Holotype. x 1. The specimen sketched in water-colours by Mr E. R. Gunther (St. WS 97) had been in formalin for several days, but its colours did not appear to have altered. It was brought up in the trawl among colonies of Cep/ialodiscus. Genus Platea, Steindachner 1898, Zool. Jahrb., Suppl. iv, p. 323; Regan, 1913, Trans. R. Soc. Edinb., xlix, p. 247. Type P. insignis, Steindachner. Skin naked. Body elongate, compressed. Snout and lower jaw with dermal processes. Mouth subterminal; teeth incisor-like, uniserial in both jaws; palate toothless. Gill- opening cleft downward to middle of base of pectoral. Dorsal origin just behind head, above anterior part of pectoral; pelvic fins present. A single species. Platea insignis, Steindachner. Platea insignis, Steindachner, 1898, Zool. Jahrb., Suppl. iv, p. 323, pi. xx, fig. 12; Delfin, 1901, Cat. Peces Chile, p. 98; Regan, 1913, Trans. R. Soc. Edinb., xlix, p. 248; Hussakof, 1914, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., xxxiu, p. 91; Thompson, 1916, Proc. Nat. Mus., l, p. 417. St. WS749. 18. ix. 31. 52: 39'30" S, 690 53'30" W. Rectangular net, 40 m.: 6 specimens, 83-180 mm. St. WS 835. 2. ii. 32. 530 05' 30" S, 68° 06' 30" W. Small beam trawl, 14-16 m.: 8 specimens, 110-140 mm. Depth of body n\ to 14! in the length, length of head 7 to yh Diameter of eye 6 to 7 in length of head, greater than interorbital width. Lower jaw more or less included; maxillary extending to below middle of eye. About 100 to no rays in the dorsal fin, about 90 to 100 in the anal; distance from head to origin of anal about ih times length Fig. 56. Platea insignis. x h 14-2
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