. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 250 BULLETIN 189, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM ANISOTREMUS SCAPULARIS (Tschudi) Chita; Sargo; Corcovado Figure 55 Pristipomus scapulare Tschudi, 1845, p. 12, Huacho, Peru (original descrip- tion) . Anisotremus scapularis Abbott, 1899, p. 350, Callao, Peru (synonymy, in part incorrect).—Evermann and Radcliffe, 1917, p. 81, pi. 8, fig. 1, Mollendo, Callao, Ballestas Island, Lobos de Afuera, Lobos de Tierra, and Paita, Peru (references; description; range).—Nichols and Murphy, 1922, p. 509, North Chincha Island and Callao market, Peru.—Fowler,
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 250 BULLETIN 189, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM ANISOTREMUS SCAPULARIS (Tschudi) Chita; Sargo; Corcovado Figure 55 Pristipomus scapulare Tschudi, 1845, p. 12, Huacho, Peru (original descrip- tion) . Anisotremus scapularis Abbott, 1899, p. 350, Callao, Peru (synonymy, in part incorrect).—Evermann and Radcliffe, 1917, p. 81, pi. 8, fig. 1, Mollendo, Callao, Ballestas Island, Lobos de Afuera, Lobos de Tierra, and Paita, Peru (references; description; range).—Nichols and Murphy, 1922, p. 509, North Chincha Island and Callao market, Peru.—Fowler, 1940b, p. 772, Peru. Head to ; depth to ; D. XII, 14 to 16 (rarely 17); A. Ill, 12 or 13; P. 16 or 17 (rarely 18); scales 65 to 73; vertebrae 26 (two specimens dissected). Body deep, compressed, its greatest thickness notably less than half the depth; back high; profile in advance of dorsal fin strongly. Figure 55.—Anisotremus scapularis (Tschudi). From a specimen 400 mm. long, Mollendo Peru ( No. 77683). (After Evermann and Radcliffe, 1917.) convex; snout blunt, especially in large specimens, to in head, eye (in young) to (in adult); interorbital (in young) to (in adult); mouth low, rather small, nearly terminal; lower jaw slightly included; maxillary generally reaching vertical from anterior margin of eye, to in head; teeth in each jaw in a broad band, the outer ones considerably enlarged, conical or pointed; preopercular margin coarsely serrate at and above its lower posterior angle; gill rakers short, those at angle about as long as pupil, 12 to 14 more or less developed on lower and about 9 to 11 on upper limb of first arch; chin with 3 pores, forming a triangle; scales ctenoid, reduced anteriorly above lateral line, on head, and on chest, extending more or less on all soft rays of fins, missing on snout and mandible, 11 or 12 complete longitudinal rows between lateral line and origin of dorsal, consistently
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