. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Fisheries -- United States; Fish-culture -- United States. 276 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 64. Plectromus cristiceps (Gilbert). One specimen inches long from station 4207, off Cape Edgecumbe, in 922 fathoms. Head in length; depth ; eye in head; maxillary ; mandible 2; interorbital ; dorsal m, 13; anal I, 8. Head long, blunt anteriorly, remarkable for cavernous areas surrounded by membranous ridges, the eye surrounded by a raised rectangular area bordered above and below by raised crests; a fragile but sharp spine
. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Fisheries -- United States; Fish-culture -- United States. 276 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 64. Plectromus cristiceps (Gilbert). One specimen inches long from station 4207, off Cape Edgecumbe, in 922 fathoms. Head in length; depth ; eye in head; maxillary ; mandible 2; interorbital ; dorsal m, 13; anal I, 8. Head long, blunt anteriorly, remarkable for cavernous areas surrounded by membranous ridges, the eye surrounded by a raised rectangular area bordered above and below by raised crests; a fragile but sharp spine on snout and a horseshoe-shaped crest on top of head, the rounded border pointing anteriorly; a raised area ending in a ridge in front of preopercle and resembling the latter in outline; a fan-shaped striate patch on upper posterior corner of opercle; mouth wide, slightly oblique, the gape reaching to vertical of pupil. Dorsal rather long, its base in head, its origin halfway between tip of snout and base of caudal; anal short, its base in head, its origin about middle of base of dorsal; ventrals short, inserted immediately below pectorals; pectoral long and slender, reaching to posterior end of dorsal, about in head, narrow (about 13-rayed), inserted close behind gill-opening and about two-thirds distance from dorsal to ventral outline. Scales apparently deciduous, the scars only remaining, largest anteriorly, 24 in longitudinal series, 9 in transverse series; no lateral line. Predominating color black; fins dark; crests, occiput, and area about eye white; positions occupied by scales lighter, border area black. Family 28. 65. Zaprora silenus Jordan. Known only from 2 specimens, the type and one other now in the Provincial Museum at Victoria, both taken in Nanaimo Harbor, British Fig. 25.—Zaprora silenus Jordan. Family 29. The Viviparous Surf-fishes. 66. Cyrnatogaster aggregatus (Gibbons). White Surf-fish; Mriparous Perch.
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