Proceedings of the United States National MuseumU.S. Government Printing Office, 1881 - 16 pages |
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abundant Acad anal fin anteriorly BAIRD base of caudal body Bourc breadth broad California carapax carpus Caudal fin caudal peduncle chelipeds coast of United color convex COUES curved depth diameter Distance from snout dorsal fin dredged edge Eulachon fathoms fish Florida front G. O. Sars genus Gill Gill-rakers GMEL Gould Greatest height head inches interorbital space John's River JORDAN lateral line Lawr Length of base Length of snout LINN lower jaw mandible margin Massachusetts maxillary membrane middle mouth narrow nearly Noank Nutt opercle orbit outer pectoral Pectoral fins posterior posteriorly preocular Proc propodus Provincetown ridges RIDGW rounded rows scales Sebastichthys shell side slender slightly species specimens spines spinous stations supraocular surface suture tail teeth transverse U. S. Nat upper jaw ventrals Verrill Vieill whorls width Wood's Holl
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Page 303 - ... at the shoulders ; the profile thence to the occiput convex, the occipital and interorbital region considerably depressed; body tapering backwards from the shoulders into a short and slender caudal peduncle. Head small, thick, the snout blunt. Mouth comparatively large, little oblique, the lower jaw included; maxillary slightly passing the vertical from the front of the orbit ; premaxillary anteriorly on a level with the inferior margin of the pupil. Eye very large, its diameter about one-thi:...
Page 524 - Copei. It is eyeless, and is, on this account alone, worthy of being distinguished generically from Spirostrephon, though the absence of pores asserted by Dr. Packard, would also constitute another character. Spirostrephon possesses a series of lateral pores as I have pointed out in accordance with Wood's view.f This genus may be then named Scoterpes. I look for the discovery of S. cavernarum in the Mammoth Cave. Two species of Arachnidans were observed, one a true spider, the other related to the...
Page 361 - Odoutophore with simple, acute-triangular, median teeth ; inner laterals simple, nearly of the same size and shape as the median, except at base; outer laterals much longer, strongly curved forward. Over 150 specimens of this interesting species were secured by the writer and others of the dredging party on the United States Fish Commission steamer "Fish Hawk", September 4, 1880. It was particularly abundant at stations 870 and 871...
Page 16 - These lines are broader as they advance forward, and uniting, form a pretty large collar on the lower part of the neck, and the upper part of the breast.
Page 467 - ... extent and form a bristling array of closely set spines, some pointing dorsally, some laterally, some ventrally ; 2 kinds of spines upon the dorsal surface, in addition to the large ones already described, some large, somewhat remote from each other, conical, stellular; others, much more numerous and filling the interspaces, pickle-like, stellular; belly armed with numerous...
Page 361 - Pen small and very thin, soft and delicate. It is angularly pointed or pen-shaped anteriorly, the shaft narrowing backward ; a thin, lanceolate expansion or web extends along nearly the posterior half. Upper jaw with a strongly incurved, sharp beak, without a notch at its base. Lower jaw with the tip of the beak strongly incurved, and with a broad but prominent rounded lobe on the middle of its cutting edges.
Page 150 - Whorls subscalariform, flattened above, the angulation formed by a doubly crenulated carina; volutions ornamented by numerous revolving, profoundly elevated striae, which are decussated by the much finer sinuated lines of growth; the upper or flattened portion with a prominent beaded line...
Page 164 - t and elsewhere) carefully reconsidered, with the aid of all the material accessible, including many specimens not previously in hand. This reconsideration of the subject has, in not a few cases, resulted in a reversal of former opinion, specimens from important localities not before represented often deciding the point one way or the other. Every form whose characteristics bear unmistakably the impress of climatic or * A Description of Sixteen New Species of North Americun Birds; by Jacob P.
Page 482 - I have ever seen, no exception being made in favor of the brilliant parrot-fishes or angel-fishes of the West Indian coral groves. Color. — Black bluish, with a green tinge, iridescent, changing through purplish blue and bluish gray to rosy white below, and milky white toward the medium line of the belly. Head rosy, iridescent, with red tints most abundant on the forehead, blue under the eyes cheeks fawncolored. Throat and under side of the head pearly white; with an occasional tint of lemon-yellow...
Page 482 - ... of anal between the rays; dorsal gray; in front of the seventh dorsal the upper third posterior to the upper two-thirds dark brown; spots of yellow, large, elongate, on or near the rays ; adipose fin whitish brown or yellow, a large group of bright yellow confluent spots at the base; pectorals sepia-colored, with rosy and purplish iridescence. (Goode & Bean.) Deep waters of the western Atlantic, at times very abundant ; now rare or almost extinct.