. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Fisheries; Fish culture. 314 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 138. Megalocottus platycephalus (Pallas). No. 2401, a female specimen 13 inches long, with minute eggs, collected at Tareinski Harbor, Kamchatka, Juno 21, 1900. This specimen appears to be M. platycephalus, though differing in some respects from current descriptions. Head 3 in length; depth -5; eye in head; snout 4; maxillary 2; mandible ; interorbital ; dorsal ix-14; anal 12; pectoral 16; caudal 11, 8 of them forked; ventral 3; lateral line 36. Body depressed anteriorly, subteret
. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Fisheries; Fish culture. 314 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 138. Megalocottus platycephalus (Pallas). No. 2401, a female specimen 13 inches long, with minute eggs, collected at Tareinski Harbor, Kamchatka, Juno 21, 1900. This specimen appears to be M. platycephalus, though differing in some respects from current descriptions. Head 3 in length; depth -5; eye in head; snout 4; maxillary 2; mandible ; interorbital ; dorsal ix-14; anal 12; pectoral 16; caudal 11, 8 of them forked; ventral 3; lateral line 36. Body depressed anteriorly, subterete posteriorly, dorsal outline nearly straight and horizontal from tip of snout to tip of spinous dorsal when depressed, thence gradually sloping to base of caudal; ventral outline sloping rapidly upward from tip of lower jaw to , from thence nearly straight; lower jaw long and projecting, cleft of mouth nearly vertical; contour viewed from above, cofhn-shaped, or long kite-shaped, widening rapidly from the tip of the truncate lower jaw to the preopercular spines where it is broadest, from thence tapering gradually to the stoutish caudal pedimcle. Head short, broad, and flat; a large flat, sunken hexagonal area extending from the nasal spines to the occiput, bounded on the sides by the high diverging supraocular and converging parietal ridges; the postocular tubercle high, large and bhmt, pointing inward; occipital tubercle prominent, pear- shaped, pointing backward, ending in a stout sharp spine; preopercidar spines covered with skin, upper longer than eye, cur\'ed upward and inward, second about half as long as first, thii'd spine promi- nent but blunt, fourth strong, pointing downward and forward; suborbital stay narrow, striate and curved, upper opercular spine short, sharp, stout, almost concealed, pointing backward and downward at the end of a high ridge, the round flap reaching considerably beyond the spine; 2 prominent tubercles ^-^â 'f y^^'-'. Fig. 73.âMi'g
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