. Synopsis of the fishes of North America [microform]. Fishes; Poissons. 93. EMBIOTOCIDiE, 685 sal. ; , 7; ; ,5; C.+ 17+. L. lat. 44; L. trans. a. The back has a slight tawny hue, interrupted as it blends with the white of the sides by five or six indistinct scollopy incursions of the body color, giving the upper part of the side of the fish a marbled ap- ; {Qoode & Bean.) West coast of Florida. ^ - lEucinostomus harenijulua Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Miis. 1879, 132, 340.) !^ Family XCIIL—EMBIOTOCID^. ; ' V :., {The Surf-fishes.) . ,., Viviparous L
. Synopsis of the fishes of North America [microform]. Fishes; Poissons. 93. EMBIOTOCIDiE, 685 sal. ; , 7; ; ,5; C.+ 17+. L. lat. 44; L. trans. a. The back has a slight tawny hue, interrupted as it blends with the white of the sides by five or six indistinct scollopy incursions of the body color, giving the upper part of the side of the fish a marbled ap- ; {Qoode & Bean.) West coast of Florida. ^ - lEucinostomus harenijulua Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Miis. 1879, 132, 340.) !^ Family XCIIL—EMBIOTOCID^. ; ' V :., {The Surf-fishes.) . ,., Viviparous Labroids. Body ovate or oblong, comi)res8ed, covered with cycloid scales of moderate size. Cheeks, operculum, and interoi)er- culimi scaly. Lateral line continuous, running high, with(mt abrupt flex- ure; not extending on the caudal flu. Head rather short. Mouth small, terminal. Jaws with conical or compressed teeth of moderate or small size, in one or two series. No teeth on vomer or jialatines; no catiines; lower pharyngeals united, without suture, their teeth conical or paved. Upper jaw freely protractile. Lips full, the lower either forming a free border to the jaw or else attached by a frenum at the symphysis. Max- illary short, without supplemental bone, slipping for most or all of its \w^\\\ under the preorbital. Opercular bones entire. Branchiostegals 0 (or 5). Gill-rakers usually slender; gill-openings wide, the membranes free fr>)m the isthmus or very slightly connected; i)seudobranchia) present; gills 4, a slit behind th*^ fourth. Nostrils round, li on each side. Dorsal fin single, long, with 8-18 usually slender spines, which are depressible in a groove. A sheath of scales along the base of the an- terior ])art of soft dorsal and posterior part of spinous dorsal; this sheath separated by a furrow from the scales of the body. Anal (in elongate, with 3 moderate or small spines and 15-35 slender soft rays, its form and structure difiering in the two ; Vent
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