. 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. Jordan and Evermann.âFishes of North America. 2739 aboat eqaal to interorbital width, shorter than its own width in front. Eye rather large, much longer than snout, wider than interorbital area. Process representing flrst dorsal spine present, small. Skin covered with opines, which are comparatively slender and sharp, their stellate bases inconspicuous, those on snout and
. 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. Jordan and Evermann.âFishes of North America. 2739 aboat eqaal to interorbital width, shorter than its own width in front. Eye rather large, much longer than snout, wider than interorbital area. Process representing flrst dorsal spine present, small. Skin covered with opines, which are comparatively slender and sharp, their stellate bases inconspicuous, those on snout and middle of back and tail largest, much slenderer and sharper than in Oycocephalns veapertilio; no spines on oc<^lli of back; belly rough; under side of tail with tubercular plates; tail depressed toward base of fin. Pectorals ^ longer than ventrals, their length If width of mouth; caudal a little longer than pectoral, 4^ in body. Color light olive, above everywhere thickly and uniformly cov- ered with small round spots of dark brown, these about an largo as the pupil and about as wide as the lighter interspaces; a conspicuous ocel- lus, larger than eye, on each side of back, this ocbllus with a bright yellow spot in the center, surrounded by a black ring, around which is a pale ring, and finally a fainter dark one; under parts plain white; pectorals spotted; caudal yellowish at base, with a terminal blackish band. Length 4 inches. Pacific coast of Mexico, south to Panama, in water of moderate depth; very rare near the shore, but obtained in abun- dance by the Albatross at Stations 2794 and 2795, near Panama. (Elattr, the spring beetle, from the resemblance of the ocelli to the eye-like spots on the back of Elater.) Malthe elater, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. 1881,365, Mazatlan. (Typo, No, 28127. Bastow.) Ogeoeephaltu elater, Jordan, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895,506. 1074. HALIEUTICHTHYS, Poey. Halieutiehthyi, Poet, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863,83 (
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