. 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. ff:^"r''^^i^'l^g^f-?^^y^^^ • 2774 Bulletin //, United States National Museum. j*a is^^, -^ 1:1. of its sides. Occipital process snbtriangnlnr, not quite as long as broad at base, with a Htrong median keel, its sij^eo slightly curved. A short distance in front of the beginning of the keel is the end of the very nar- row groove-like fontanel, which is somewhat widen*n &
. 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. ff:^"r''^^i^'l^g^f-?^^y^^^ • 2774 Bulletin //, United States National Museum. j*a is^^, -^ 1:1. of its sides. Occipital process snbtriangnlnr, not quite as long as broad at base, with a Htrong median keel, its sij^eo slightly curved. A short distance in front of the beginning of the keel is the end of the very nar- row groove-like fontanel, which is somewhat widen*n & , Kept. Fishes Sinaloa, in I'roc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895, 395, i»l. 26, Mazatlan. (Type, No. 29213. Coll. Chrts. U. Gilbert.) 188. <aLRICIlTliYS JOKUANI (Eigeuniann & Eigenmann). Head 3?, to 3*; (l«^pth 5A to 5^. D. I, 7; A. 18; eye large. If in snout, 5A ill head, 2 in the iuterorbitiil, 2f to 3 in the. interocular. The specimens agree very closely with tln^ description of aaaimilia by Jordan & Cilbert (jfilberti of the present paper). They differ in the width of the mouth and in having a pectoral pore. Kather robust, +'- width little less than the depth; caudal peduncle compressed. Head heavy, little broader than high, its height lA in its length, its width If to 1^, width at the angle of the mouth 2 to 21; interorbital area fiat and smooth; posterior portion of the head finely and sparsely granular; opercle and humeral process smooth; occipital process about as long as broad, unusually sharply keeled; fontanel extending to above the posterior part of the orbit, con- tinuing as a deep groove to the base of the occipital process; maxillary barbels extending to the pectoral pore, postmentals at least to the gill opening, mental about f as long as the postmental barbels; snout blunt, decurved; upper jaw a little produced; teeth all villifrm, those on the vomer foruiing 2 small, separate, ovate patches, which are contiguous to the twice or thrice as hirg
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