. Fishes. Fishes. Fig. 478.—White Surf-fish, Damalichthys argyrosomus (Girard). British Columbia Chinese. The two exceptions in distribution are Hysterocar- piis traski, which lives exclusively in fresh waters, being con- fined to the lowlands of the Sacramento Basin, and Zalembius rosaceiis, which descends to considerable depths in the sea. In Hysterocarpus the spinous dorsal is very greatly Fig. 479.—Thiok-lipped Surf-fish, Rhacochilus toxotes Agassiz. Monterey, Cal. seventeen stout spines being present, the others having but eight to eleven and these veiy slender. The details of

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. Fishes. Fishes. Fig. 478.—White Surf-fish, Damalichthys argyrosomus (Girard). British Columbia Chinese. The two exceptions in distribution are Hysterocar- piis traski, which lives exclusively in fresh waters, being con- fined to the lowlands of the Sacramento Basin, and Zalembius rosaceiis, which descends to considerable depths in the sea. In Hysterocarpus the spinous dorsal is very greatly Fig. 479.—Thiok-lipped Surf-fish, Rhacochilus toxotes Agassiz. Monterey, Cal. seventeen stout spines being present, the others having but eight to eleven and these veiy slender. The details of structure vary greatly among the different M f [. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931. New York, H. Holt and Company

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