. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . FiG. 1.—The common Angler {Lophius piscatoritts). After Smitt. torales pediculees as a family designation. This was latinized asPediculati and subsequently used as a subordinal and still later as anordinal term. With the last sense it is here used. The old authorsmostly associated with the Pediculates, the Batrachoidids, or Toad-fishes, and they have been restored to the order by Regan (1909), butnot by other authors, nor in the present article. ANGLER FISHES GILL. 567 PART I. Order Pediculati. The Pediciilates are teleos
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . FiG. 1.—The common Angler {Lophius piscatoritts). After Smitt. torales pediculees as a family designation. This was latinized asPediculati and subsequently used as a subordinal and still later as anordinal term. With the last sense it is here used. The old authorsmostly associated with the Pediculates, the Batrachoidids, or Toad-fishes, and they have been restored to the order by Regan (1909), butnot by other authors, nor in the present article. ANGLER FISHES GILL. 567 PART I. Order Pediculati. The Pediciilates are teleost fishes, offshoots from the Acanthopteryg-ians, or spine-finned fishes, and have a closed air bladder, if any,the scapular arch connected with the sides of the skull, the mesoco-racoid bone absent, the actinosts in reduced number (2 or 3) and intypical form elongated to form false arms, or pseudobrachia, and the. Fig. 2.—Shoulder yirdle of the Angler, showing the pseudobrachium oi- false arm withits two actinosts (a), the hypercoracoid (7ir), hypocoracoid (ho), and postscapula (ps),as well as proscapula or ccenosteon (c). After Mettenheimer. ventrals advanced forward; the ventrals, when present, are indeedjugular; the skull is depressed and without a myodome or cavityfor the insertion of the ocular muscles, the parietals are separate andthroAvn to the sides by the intervention and contact of the supraoc-cipital and frontals, and the suborbital chain of bones is absent. Thevertebral centra are well developed and separate, but there are neitherribs nor epipleurals. The branchial apertures are much reduced andmanifest as foramina in or about the axils of the pectorals, generallythe upper axils, sometimes the —SM 1908 37 568 ANNUAL EEPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1908. Fishes having these characters in common exhibit great diversity inother respects, and not least in the provision f
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