. 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. r w^ I IT' â â¢if 1736 DuUetin /7, Unixcd States National Museum. spots becuining more marked as tbo pale streaks lade away; caudal iiourl. plaiu, diiHky buhiud. LtMigth IX iiiehos. raciiic coast of tropical Amori) Kiciiaruson, Voyage Herald, 156, pi. 30,1804, Galapagus Islands; not of Hloch & Schneidkk. Tetrodon heraldi, , Cat. Fish., viii, 283, 1870, Galapago


. 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. r w^ I IT' â â¢if 1736 DuUetin /7, Unixcd States National Museum. spots becuining more marked as tbo pale streaks lade away; caudal iiourl. plaiu, diiHky buhiud. LtMigth IX iiiehos. raciiic coast of tropical Amori) Kiciiaruson, Voyage Herald, 156, pi. 30,1804, Galapagus Islands; not of Hloch & Schneidkk. Tetrodon heraldi, , Cat. Fish., viii, 283, 1870, Galapagos Islands and ; after Kichauumon's HptMuuiun, prittkly 4iud with the iiiti^rurbital upacu broad uud iliil. Tetrodon geometricug, ODnther, Fish. Centr. Amor., 480,1800. Sphceroidei testxidineui annulatus, Jordan & Edwards, I. c, 240. Kepreseuted northward (Guuymas, Mazatlan, La Pa/, etc.) by. '^M: -J :jS 'm4 S#: ' : .â 'i 1M '"''1 1 â â =«' Im f -t i ,t: ' lil . . >â :i W: ptetv. .t- : 4 2151a. SPiiKROIOES AXXULATUH POLITUS (Girard). This form diilers usually in having the small dark spots smaller, more numerous, and more unequal in size than is usually the case in Spheroides annulatua of the same size. It is also more frequently devoid of prickles, but this character seems to be subject to great variation. At Mazathiii smooth and prickly specimens abound in the Astillero, and may be taken together in the same drawing of the net. Professors Evcrmann and .Jen- kins further note that the interorbitiil space is Hat in S, politua and con- cave in S. annulatua, but we arc unable to appreciatparently fairly constant, {politua, polished.) Tetrodon politut, Girahd, Facitic Survey, x, 340, 1858, San Diego, California, spec i mens perfectly Hmooth; GCnthkr, Fish. Centr. Anier.,480,1869; GDnthbr, Cat., viii, 281,1870; Jordan Sc Gilbert, Synopsis, 860,1883. Sphceroidei politus, Jordan & Edwarcc), {. c, 239; Evgrmamn &. Jenkins, Troc. U. S. Xat.


Size: 920px × 2715px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookpublisher, booksubjectfishes