. Synopsis of the fishes of North America [microform]. Fishes; Poissons. ADDENDA 103. URANOSCOPID^ ASTROSCOPUS. 941 serrate. Soft dorsal and anal angular bebind. D. XIII, 19; A. Ill, 17; scales C-42-17. {O'dnther.) West Indies, north to Florida Keys. (L. Syst. Nat.; GUnther, ii, 12.) Page GI5. After Pomacanthns ciliariti add: i»64 (&). P. tricolor (Bloch) J. &, Ci.âBlack Angel. Head, caudal fln, anterior part of trunk, and margins of soft dorsal iiud anal yellow; rest of body black. Preopercular spine grooved, reaching to posterior margin of oi)ercle. Soft dorsal, anal, and ui)per ray
. Synopsis of the fishes of North America [microform]. Fishes; Poissons. ADDENDA 103. URANOSCOPID^ ASTROSCOPUS. 941 serrate. Soft dorsal and anal angular bebind. D. XIII, 19; A. Ill, 17; scales C-42-17. {O'dnther.) West Indies, north to Florida Keys. (L. Syst. Nat.; GUnther, ii, 12.) Page GI5. After Pomacanthns ciliariti add: i»64 (&). P. tricolor (Bloch) J. &, Ci.âBlack Angel. Head, caudal fln, anterior part of trunk, and margins of soft dorsal iiud anal yellow; rest of body black. Preopercular spine grooved, reaching to posterior margin of oi)ercle. Soft dorsal, anal, and ui)per ray of caudal, moderately produced. D. XIV, 19; A. Ill, 18; scales 8-48-25. {GUnther.) West Indies, north to Florida Keys. {Vliwtodon tricolor Bloch, Iclith. xii, 1797, taf. 4\J5: Holacanthua tricolor C. & V. vii, Ifi'J: HolacanthuH /nco/o»'Giinthor, ii, 49.) Page G17. Ait&v Acanthurus cliirurgus nAA: 966 (&)â A nigricans (L.) Bluch. Closely related to Acanthurus chirurgus, differing in the longer snout, which is more convex in its upper i)ortion. Caudal triangular, scarcely concave behind; vertical bands on the side very narrow, usually dis- appearing after death; fins without oblique stripes. {Poey.) West In- dies, occasionally northward (said to have been once taken at New York). {Chwtodon nigricana Linn. Syst. Nat.: Acanthurua phlehotomua Cuv. & Val. x, 176, tab. 2b7, 1835: Acanthuj-ua phlebotomua Voey, Aual. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. IbSO, 245.) 966 ((;)⢠A. tractus Poey. Distinguished most readily by the length of the caudal lobes, especi- ally the upper, which is notably longer than the lower, its tip ending in a whitish thread; anterior profile modferately curved. Dorsal with faint oblique streaks. Body usually without dark streaks. West In- dies and both coasts of Mecico, occasional northward. {Acantkurua chirurgua C. & V. x, 168 (not Chcetodan chirurgua Bloch); Poey, Mem. Cuba, 11, 208, 1860; Poey, Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 1880, 246.) Page 628.
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