. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Fisheries -- United States; Fish-culture -- United States. 3U BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 138. Megalocottus platycephalus (Pallas). No. 2401, a female specimen 13 inches long, with minute eggs, collected at Tareinski Harbor, Kamchatka, June 21, 1900. This specimen appears to be M. platycephalus, though differing in some respects from current descriptions. Head 3 in length; depth 5; eye in head; snout 4; maxillary 2; mandible ; interorbital ; dorsal ix-14; anal 12; pectoral 16; caudal 11, 8 of them forked; ventral 3; lateral li
. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Fisheries -- United States; Fish-culture -- United States. 3U BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 138. Megalocottus platycephalus (Pallas). No. 2401, a female specimen 13 inches long, with minute eggs, collected at Tareinski Harbor, Kamchatka, June 21, 1900. This specimen appears to be M. platycephalus, though differing in some respects from current descriptions. Head 3 in length; depth 5; eye in head; snout 4; maxillary 2; mandible ; interorbital ; dorsal ix-14; anal 12; pectoral 16; caudal 11, 8 of them forked; ventral 3; lateral line 36. Body depressed anteriorly. Bubterete posteriorly, dorsal outline nearly straight and horizontal from tip of snout to tip of spinous dorsal when depressed, thence gradually sloping to base of caudal; ventral outline sloping rapidly upward from tip of lower1 jaw to gill-slits, from thence nearly straight; lower jaw long and projecting, cleft of mouth nearly vertical; contour viewed from above, coffin-shaped, or long kite-shaped, widening rapidly from the tip of the truncate lower jaw to the preopercular spines where it is broadest, from thence tapering gradually to the stoutish caudal peduncle. Head short, broad, and flat; a large flat, sunken hexagonal area extending from the nasal spines to the occiput, bounded on the sides by the high diverging supraocular and converging parietal ridges; the postocular tubercle high, large and blunt, pointing inward; occipital tubercle prominent, pear- shaped, pointing backward, epding in a stout sharp spine; preopercular spines covered with skin, upper longer than eye, curved upward and inward, second about half as long as first, third spine promi- nent but blunt, fourth strong, pointing downward and forward; suborbital stay narrow, striate and curved, upper opercular spine short, sharp, stout, almost concealed, pointing backward and downward at the end of a high ridge, the round flap reaching considerably beyond the spine; 2 prominent
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