Oceanic Ichthyology A Treatise On The Deep Sea And Pelagic Fishes Of The World Based Chiefly Upon The Collections Made By The Steamers Bl

Author : George Brown Goode
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230074481
Total Pages : 364 pages
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Download or read book Oceanic Ichthyology; a Treatise on the Deep-Sea and Pelagic Fishes of the World, Based Chiefly Upon the Collections Made by the Steamers Blake, Albatr written by George Brown Goode and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...ray equals the postorbital part of the head. The pectoral reaches to below the origin of the soft dorsal; its length equals that of the head without the snout. The ventral begins slightly in advance of the origin of the pectoral and it is nearly as long as the pectoral, its length onequarter of the total without caudal. Radial formula: D. ix, I, 9; A. iv, 7; V. i, 5; P. i, 15. Scales 2/29/7. The colors have faded; traces of purplish brown on the upper parts and the head; spinous dorsal with a dark triangular blotch on its upper portion extending from the second to the sixth spine, involving less than half the height of the membrane. Specimens were obtained by the Albatross from station 2314, in 32 43' N. lat., 77 51' W. Ion. (off South Carolina), at a depth of 159 fathoms; from station 2397, in 28 42' N. iat., 80 36' W. Ion. (between the Delta of the Mississippi and Cedar Keys, Florida), at a depth of 280 fathoms; from station 2401, in 28 38' 30" N. lat., 85 52' 30" W. Ion. (between the Delta of the Mississippi and Cedar Keys, Florida), at a depth of 142 fathoms; from station 2417, in 33 18' 30" N. lat., 77 07' W. Ion. (off Cape Fear), at a depth of 95 fathoms; from station 2418, in 33 20' N. lat., 77 05' W. Ion., at a depth of 90 fathoms; from station 2425, in 36 20' 24" N. lat., 74 46' 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 119 fathoms; and from station 2426, in 36 01' 30" If. lat., 74 47' 30" W. Ion. (off North Carolina), in 93 fathoms. Family SERRANIDE. Serranida. Richardson, Iclith. Erebus and Terror, 1848, iv (in part).--Gill, Arr. Fam. Fishes, 1872 (in part.); Century Dictionary, 5573.--Jordan & Gilbert, Bull, xvi, U. S. Nat. Mus., 526.--Jordan and Eigenmann, Bull. U. S. F. C, vni, 1888, 329, 433....