Identifier: bulletinunitedst100141419401950unit (find matches)
Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: United States National Museum Smithsonian Institution United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, (etc.) for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt Print. Off.
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orward; 4 very short spines at front of each premaxillary;interorbital 4% in head measured from snout tip, level to depressedmedianly; preopercle with row of short spines along hind verticaledge, 3 on lower edge and 2 widely divergent spines at angle; operclewith 2 widely divergent spines, lower longer. Gill rakers 8-rl5,lanceolate, longer than gill filaments or 2 in eye. 60 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM Tubular scales 44 in lateral line to caudal base, not continued onlast; 5 scales above to spinous dorsal origin, 4 above to soft dorsalorigin, 14 below to anal origin, about 19 predorsal forward untilopposite hind pupil edge. On head small scales on postocular, pre-dorsal, and cheek, on last in seven transverse rows to angle of pre-opercle keel and scales little larger than on opercle. Spinous dorsalwith basal scaly sheath at each spine and small scales on bases ofall rayed vertical fins and pectoral base. Small scales also on chestand breast, and on inner ventral bases.
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mm. H.W.F.del. Figure 8.—Rhomboserranus gracilispinis, new species: Type (U.S.N.M. No. 99519). D. IX, 10, i, fourth spine 2*4 5 in total length of head, first branchedray 2y3; A. Ill, 7, i, second spine 2%, second ray 3; caudal iy2, wellemarginate behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 3%; pectoral 1%,rays i, 15; ventral rays I, 5, fin 1% in total head length. Color in alcohol largely uniform brown, little paler below. Irispale to whitish. Soft dorsal, anal, and ventral dark to gray-blackterminally. Inside gill opening and mouth cavity blackish brown. Characters of distinction largely contained in the generic account. Type.—V.S.NM. No. 99519. D. 5273. Corregidor Light N. 27°E., 27.25 miles (lat. 13°5845 N., long. 120°2135 E.), China Sea,vicinity of southern Luzon. In 114 fathoms. July 14, 1908. Length80 mm. Paratopes.—U.S.N.M. No. 99520. D. 5273. Corregidor Light N.27° E., 27.25 miles (lat, 13°5845 N., long. 120°2135 E.), China NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES—FOWLER 61 Sea, vicini

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