. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. 92 DISCOVERY REPORTS enlarged, spaced, canine-like; a group of stronger canine teeth on each praemaxillary; teeth in lower jaw uniserial, spaced, canine-like; upper surface of head (except snout and praeorbital), cheeks and opercles covered with small scales; some of the mucous pores on the head enlarged, situated at the ends of elongate naked areas symmetrically arranged on upper surface of head, on praeorbital and on suborbitals; about n or 12 small spinate gill-rakers on lower part of anterio
. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. 92 DISCOVERY REPORTS enlarged, spaced, canine-like; a group of stronger canine teeth on each praemaxillary; teeth in lower jaw uniserial, spaced, canine-like; upper surface of head (except snout and praeorbital), cheeks and opercles covered with small scales; some of the mucous pores on the head enlarged, situated at the ends of elongate naked areas symmetrically arranged on upper surface of head, on praeorbital and on suborbitals; about n or 12 small spinate gill-rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Scales on body more or less smooth; no to 120 in a lateral longitudinal series; about 95 tubular scales in upper lateral line, which extends to below posterior part of dorsal or beyond; about 64 in. Fig. 44. Dissostichus eleginoides. lower lateral line, which extends forward to or nearly to pectoral fin. Dorsal IX-X 26-29. Anal 26-30. Pectoral f to nearly f length of head, much longer than the pelvics, which do not nearly reach the vent. Caudal truncate or a little emarginate; caudal peduncle longer than deep. More or less uniformly brownish, or with indistinct darker markings; spinous dorsal dusky distally. Hab. Coast of Argentina; Patagonian-Falklands region; Straits of Magellan; Graham Land. This species was previously unrepresented in the British Museum collection. I have dissected the shoulder girdle in one of the above specimens, and find the arrangement of the hypercoracoid, hypocoracoid, and radials very similar to that of Notothenia. Genus Eleginops, Gill Eleginns (non Fischer, 1813), Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, p. 158; Giinther, i860, Cat. Fish., 11, p. 247. Type E. maclovinus, Cuvier and Valenciennes. Eleginops, Gill, 1862, Proc. Acad. Philad. (1861), p. 522; Gill, 1891, Proc. Nat. Mns., xiv, p. 305; Regan, 1913, Trans. R. Soc. Edinb., xlix, p. 279. Type Aphritis iindulatus, Jenyns. This genus differs from Notothenia in the
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