Orr and Matarese: Revison of the genus Lepidopsetta Gill, 1862 



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dorsal eye length 17.9-32.99f HL; ventral eye approximately 

 equal in length to ventral orbit, length n.2-35.47r HL; 

 interorbital with up to 5 scales (often lost in preser\'ed mate- 

 rial), width 1.3-6.69; HL; cheek with 7-16 scales, length 

 26.7-65.9'/f HL, depth 13.6-33.6% HL; preopercular pores 

 5-13; ocular-side suborbital pores 13-38; blind-side subor- 

 bital pores 6-20; lateral line with a high arch, 6-8 scale 

 rows high over the pectoral fin, arch length about three 

 times its depth, length 26, 1-69. 99^ HL, lateral line pores 

 70-119; anterior supratemporal short, pores 2-15; poste- 

 rior supratemporal branch moderately elongate, pores 6-35; 

 supraorbital canal short or long, pores 1-9; pectoral fins 

 with 8-13 rays, dorsal 2-3, and ventralmost simple and all 

 others branched, ocular-side pectoral fin longer than blind- 

 side pectoral fin, length 10.7-18. 29^ SL (38.3-70. 4'7c HL), 

 blind-side pectoral fin about equal in length to pelvic fins, 

 length 6.6-12.79^ SL (23.2-49.69r HL); pelvic fins with 6 

 branched rays, ocular-side pelvic-fin length about equal to 

 blind-side pelvic-fin length, 7.4-12. 59^ SL (26.7-45.99f HL); 

 dorsal-fin origin over anterior portion of dorsal orbit, dorsal 

 fin with 64-89 simple soft rays, smallest rays anterior and 

 posterior, longest rays at midbody, height 10.2-16.69f SL; 

 dorsal-fin pterygiophores 68-78 in specimens with 64-83 

 dorsal-fin rays, 8-11 anterior to first neural spine, the first 

 bifurcate and supporting two rays; anal fin with 49-77 

 simple soft rays in specimens with 54-63 anal-fin rays sup- 

 ported by 53-63 pterygiophores, fin about equal in height 

 to dorsal fin; anal-fin rays 1 and 2 supported by greatly 

 expanded anterior pterygiophore, sharp point of which often 

 projects through skin between anal-fin origin and anus; 

 caudal peduncle length 7.0-10.9% SL (25.5-42.2% HL); 

 least caudal peduncle depth 8.2-14.09?^ SL (29.6-50.3% 

 HL; 90.0-1 72. 09-'^ caudal peduncle length); greatest caudal 

 peduncle depth 10.1-16.9% SL (37.2-57.7% HL); caudal fin 

 truncate to rounded, with 18-19 rays, total of 8-10 both 

 dorsally and ventrally, five on each of complex hypurals l-(-2 

 and 3-1-4, 3 on hypural 5, one on the epural or preural 2 

 neural spine, and four on the parhypural, length 15.3-29.1% 

 SL; vertebrae 39-42, 11 precaudal and 28-31 caudal, 

 neural spines 1-3 and haemal spines 1-4 anteroposteriorly 



expanded, epineurals present on vertebrae 2-11, ribs pres- 

 ent on vertebrae 3-11. Meristics are summarized in Tables 



3-7. 



