. 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. if i PV' J ^. 1624 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 2084. CBYPT«T0JIU8 USTtIS ( &. Val.'ii.'i(Miiie8). Head about 3i; depth 3. I). IX, 9; A, II, 8; scales 1^-21-6. IJody rnod- (^ately elongated, coiiipresaud. Mead rather pointed; luterul teeth of lo\V( r Jaw Bubeqiial, arranged in 2 rows which arc not parallel, the posteridi- teeth of the anterior seri
. 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. if i PV' J ^. 1624 Bulletin 47, United States National Museum. 2084. CBYPT«T0JIU8 USTtIS ( &. Val.'ii.'i(Miiie8). Head about 3i; depth 3. I). IX, 9; A, II, 8; scales 1^-21-6. IJody rnod- (^ately elongated, coiiipresaud. Mead rather pointed; luterul teeth of lo\V( r Jaw Bubeqiial, arranged in 2 rows which arc not parallel, the posteridi- teeth of the anterior series standing below and outside the anterior teeth of th«» posterior series. Posterior canine usually proccdtsd by 2 or '^ .sinalln ones; upper lip double for its whole leugth; profile slightly convex above eye and somewhat concave before it; snout long, 2]^ in head; distance iioin eye to angle of mouth 3 in head, and 25^ times diameter of eye; eye small. 0| in head; anterior canines about 4 on each side, strong and divergent; lower teeth larger than in other species. Color in spirits, olive gray, with irregular marblings of slaty gray; 1 ditfuse dark blotches along base oi dorsal; dorsal olive, finely mottled with dark cross lines, the membrane of the first 2 spines black; caudal and anal i)lain olive. West Indies, north to Charleston, south to Bahia; rather common. We have examined specimens of this species from Kio Jiinoiro, Pensacola, and Charleston, well as the original type from lira/il.* (ustux, scorched, from the color.) OallyodoHuttus, CrviER& Valenciknnks, Hist. Nat. Poisa., xiv, 280,1839, Brazil; (li'.NTHEn Cat., IV, 214,1862; GuicHENOT, Scariiles, 59,1865 (note on types); Jordan cfc Gilbeut, Synopsis, 606, 1883; JoiiOAN, Procj. V. S. Nat. Miis. 1886, .')4I (note on type). Oiiptotoinvt utttis, Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nut. Mus. 1886, 228; Jordan, Keview Labroid Fisliea, 666,1890. 20»6. t'llYPTOTOJIUS AUROl'UNCTATIS (Ciivier & ValencieiiuesV Head 3; depth 3.
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