. 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.—Fishes of North America. 2343 2086. AltBACIOKA KOS (Jordan \- (^.ilbert). Head 3; depth 5.^; eye moderate, lA in iuterorbital width, which is about 3^ in head. D. 6; A. (i. Body comparatively short, stout, and nar- row; the head ratlicr broad, but, like the body, much less depressed than in (r. erythrops; width of liead less than its length, or IJji in
. 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.—Fishes of North America. 2343 2086. AltBACIOKA KOS (Jordan \- (^.ilbert). Head 3; depth 5.^; eye moderate, lA in iuterorbital width, which is about 3^ in head. D. 6; A. (i. Body comparatively short, stout, and nar- row; the head ratlicr broad, but, like the body, much less depressed than in (r. erythrops; width of liead less than its length, or IJji in body. Incisors serrate or tricuspid. Pectorals about 4 in head; v*'utral disk shorter than head. Distance from base of caudal to front of dorsal 3,i in total length; caudal truncate. Bright rosy r* a, sometimes dusky above with black points; back with 1 to 3 faint dark bars; 3 dark lines downward and backward from orbit, and usually 1 or 2 more on opercle; cauilal usually with a reddish bar at liase and a dusky one toward tip; lins otherwise nearly plain. Pacific coast of Mexico; abundant in rock pools about Mazatlan in company with Arbaciosa zebra, hiding under sea-urchins, bert, rioc IT. S. Nat. Muh. 18H1, 300, Mazatlan, Mexico ( Type,); Jordan \ Gilbert, Bull. Fish Cora. 1882, 108; Jordan, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1895,499. Group BLENNIODEA. (Blennioiu Fishes.) Body more or less elongate, naked or with scales, large or small; ven- tral fins small, more or less advanced in position, often wanting, the num- ber of soft rays always less than 5; hypt'reoraeoid perforate, tht> shoulder girdle normally formed; skull not armed with spines; suborbital not developed as a bony stay articulating with the preopercle; pseudobran- chiai present; dorsal fin long, its anterior half, and sometimes the whole fin, composed of spiiu's; anal long; tail homocercal, the caudal usually rounded, rarely forked; vertebra! numerous, especially in the arctic spe- cies. A large
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