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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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rigin. On head several dark bars on occi-put, 1 on postocular, another from lower hind eye edge down overcheek. Two dark bars on opercle. Under surface of head and trunkwhitish. 90 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM Approaches Lycenchelys poecilimon Jordan and Fowler14 appearingto differ in proportions, much smaller and shorter mouth, larger eye,apparently fewer dorsal and anal rays and the coloration. Type.—U.S.N.M. No. 99511. D. 4817. Niigata Light, S. 29° E.,18 miles (lat. 38°12 N., long. 138°52 E.). In 61 fathoms. July 18,1906. Length 70 mm. ((nriXwTos, spotted.) Family MONACANTHIDAEGenus STEPHANOLEPIS Gill STEPHANOLEPIS RETROSPINIS, new species Figure 25 Depth 1%; head 3, width 2%. Snout V/s in head, tip in frontwell below level of eye or opposite upper part of gill opening; eye2% in head, 2 in snout, slightly greater than interorbital; mouthsmall, terminal; teeth little exposed, front pair in each jaw largest;interorbital 3% in head, convex. Gill opening 1% in eye.
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H.W.F.deL Figure 25.—Stephanolepis retrospinis, new species: Type (U.S.N.M. No. 108467). Skin rough velvety. No armature on caudal peduncle or on side oftail. Pelvic flap little developed, with feeble slender spines. Pelvicspine hinged, hind section freely movable, edges spinescent allaround. wProc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, p. 748, fig. 2, 1903 (type locality: Off Kuikwazan inMatsushima Bay, Japan). NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES FOWLER 91 D. I—25, spine 1*4 in head, reaches second dorsal when depressed,with row of 5 recurved large spinules each side and directed down-ward, second dorsal height 2% in head; A. 28, fin height 4%; leastdepth of caudal peduncle 2%; caudal l^i, convex behind; pectoral 2,rays 10. Color in alcohol brown, little paler below eye and on under surfaceof body. On body below second dorsal base three diffuse dark grayblotches and 2 along base of anal. Iris gray white. Fins all paleto whitish. Type.—U.S.N.M. No. 108467. Cebu Island, Philippines. April 24,1929. Lt. H.

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