. 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. i ( mm i / It^l. 2726 Dtdletin ^7, United States National Museum. edgings of browu, producing a semblance to reticulation, or lo spottin^^s hy drops of liquid; 7 streaks of brown radiate from the eye; as in A. ligrin, they are continued upon the head and down toward the ventrals; :i largo spot of black, white-odged, a little larger than the or1)it, | on the tin and | on th
. 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. i ( mm i / It^l. 2726 Dtdletin ^7, United States National Museum. edgings of browu, producing a semblance to reticulation, or lo spottin^^s hy drops of liquid; 7 streaks of brown radiate from the eye; as in A. ligrin, they are continued upon the head and down toward the ventrals; :i largo spot of black, white-odged, a little larger than the or1)it, | on the tin and | on the muscles of the body, occupies the sjtace between the eighth and the tenth rays of the soft dorsal fin; the light areiis vary ill intensity, and lie close together over nearly the whole of body and fins; belly lighter, with faint indications of lines of brownish, radiating from the head; caudal with oblique transverse eloudings of brownish; hind- most i light. The color in life was probably reddish or yellowish. Secured off Key West, in about 50 fathoms. A young individual, of less than an inch, taken opposite Havana, is of lighter gray, and has a large ocellus, of light color in the center, between the black one at the base of the dorsal and the upper end of tlie humerus. There are small cutaneous fringes on the Hanks. (Garman.) (radioaua, rayed.) Antennarius radiomit, Garman, Mull. Lab. Nat. Hist. Iowa Dniv. 1896, 85, i>l. 1, oflF Key West, in 50 fathoms. (Coll. C. C. Nutting.) 106a. CHAUNAX, Lowe. Ghaimax, , Trans. Zcol. Soc. Lond., ill, 1846, 330 {pictus). Head very large, depressed, cuboid. Mouth large, subvertical; jaws and palate with bands of small teeth. Skin with small, sharp spines. Spinous dorsal reduced to a small tentacle above the snout, retractile into a groove; soft dorsal moderate, low; anal short; ventrals small. Gills 2k; no pseudobranchia;. Muciferous channels very conspicuous, the lateral line prominent, undulate; another series of mucous tubes ex
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