. 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. Jordan and Evermann.âFishes of North America. 451 npper, the ventral edge trenchant, not serrate; snont abort, blnnt, upturned; teeth small; maxillary not reaching joint of mandible; gill raktis Hhort, 7-f 14, the longest f eye. Pectoral scarcely shorter than lipud, reaching middle of length of ventrals; insertion of dorsal mid- way between base of caudal and base of pecto
. 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. Jordan and Evermann.âFishes of North America. 451 npper, the ventral edge trenchant, not serrate; snont abort, blnnt, upturned; teeth small; maxillary not reaching joint of mandible; gill raktis Hhort, 7-f 14, the longest f eye. Pectoral scarcely shorter than lipud, reaching middle of length of ventrals; insertion of dorsal mid- way between base of caudal and base of pectoral; anal inserted before (luisal; scales deciduous. Silvery lateral band broad, not strongly niarkod, narrowed on the tail. Coasts of Guiana and Brazil, ascending rivers. (Steindachner.) (at/tmnoteies, like J</jmH«, referring to the sil- very stripe.) (â¢\mca!, Spix, Pisc. Brasil., 50, 1828, Rio Janeiro. En;, Aijabbi/, Spix, PIhc. Brasil., i)l. 24, tig. 1, 1828, Rio Janeiro. EiKinmlis drntex, CuviEU & Valenciennes, Ilist. Nat. I'oisB., x.\i, 28, 1848, Rio Janeiro. LycemjiaulU (jrossidens, Eioenhann .<i Bray, Ann. N. Y. Ac. Nat. Sci., 1894, ti2G. Family LXIII. ALEPOCEPHALID^. Body oblong, compressed, covered with thin cycloid or keeled scales, or with naked skin; head naked. Lateral line present or absent. No barbels. Mouth moderate or large; margin of the upper jaw formed by the preniaxillaries and the maxillaries, the former being placed along the upper anterior edge of the latter. Teeth feeble. Opercular apparatus complete, its bones thin. Phosphorescent spots none, or , placed in nodules of the naked skin. Nr adipose fin; dorsal fin long and low, posterior, inserted nearly opposite the anal; pectorals shoit, placed rather high; ventrals usually well back, sometimes wanting. Gill openings very wide, the membranes free from the isthmus. Pseudo- brancliiie present; no gular plate; no air bladder. Stomach curved, without blind sac; pylor
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