MULLIDAE OF THE WESTERN NORTH ATL.\NTIC 



455 



Teeth 



Upper and lower jaw. — All specimens had a row 

 of small canines posteriorly in each jaw: these 

 rows were irregularly biserial anteriorly. 



Vomerine and palatine. — Absent. 

 Scales 



Counts ran<recl from 84 to 30 (mean of 36) on 

 21 specimens, with 3.5 being the number most fre- 

 quently encountered. The scale of a 138.0-mm. 

 specimen had 83 ctenii, and one from a 188.0-mm. 

 specimen had 122. 



Barbels 



Fully developed and normal on all material. 



Operculum 



All material had a strong spine on the oper- 

 culum at the anterior terminus of the lateral mid- 

 line. Slightly dorsal to this is a small crenulated 

 tab (fig. 43). 



Figure 43. — Oi)erculum and eleithrum of 83.5-mru. MuJ- 

 loidichthys mariiniciis. Line equals 2 mm. 



eleithrum 



No serrations were observed on the posterior 

 wing of the cleithi'um of any specimen. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



I wish to acknowledge the assistance of the fol- 

 lowing who aided me in many ways: Fernando 

 Zapico, Mi-s. King Ilai-t, Bert H. Malone, Boyd 

 W. Walker, and Malcolm S. Gordon. 



For the loan of other material I am indebted 

 to Ernest A. Lachner of the I'.S. National Mu.seum 

 (USNM) ; David K. C^aldwell, then of the U.S. 

 Fish and Wildlife Service, for the specimens from 

 his Jamaican collection (DKC) ; James E. Bohlke, 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 

 ( ANSP) ; Koyal D. Suttkus of Tulane University 

 (TU) ; Ix)ren P. W^oods of the Chicago Natural 

 History Museum (CNHM) ; E. Milby Burton of 

 the Charleston Museum (Chil) ; E. L. Aniold, 

 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Galveston, Texas 

 (BLGT) ; the late Margaret Storey, Stanford 

 Natural History Museum (SU) ; W. I. Follett of 

 the California Academy of Sciences (CAS) ; Luis 

 R. Rivas of the Ichthyological Lalx)ratoi-y and 

 Museum, University of Miami (UMIM) ; John D. 

 Kilby of tlie University of Florida (UF) ; and 

 Giles W. ilead, then of the U.S. Fish and Wild- 

 life Service Ichthyological Laboratory (USFWS 

 Ich. Lab.). 



LITERATURE CITED 



Anderson, Wiixiam W., Jack W. Geiirinoer, and Edward 

 Cohen. 



1956. Physical oceauographic, biological, and chemi- 

 cal data, South Atlantic coast of the United 

 States, M/V Theodore N. Gill Cruise 1. U.S. 

 Fish and Wildlife Service, Special Scientific Re- 

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 Beebe, William, and John Tee-Van. 



1928. The fishes of Port-au-Priuee Bay, Haiti, with 

 a summary of the known .species of marine fish 

 of the islands of Haiti and Santo Domingo. Zoo- 

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 1933. Field book of the shore fishes of Bermuda. 

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