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spines) corresponds to the soft dorsal in location, height, and outline. The caudal 

 is brush shaped. The ventrals are very long, with the rays free at their tips, and 

 are situated in front of the pectorals. The latter are short and rounded. The 

 skin is naked except for a series of bony bucklers, each with a hooked spine and 

 arranged as follows: Seven along the base of the dorsal, two in front of the ventrals, 

 one in the midline followed by six pairs between ventrals and anal, and four along 

 the base of the latter. 



Color. — Described as plain silvery with a black lateral spot. 



Fig. 133. — John Dory (Zcnopsis ocellatus) 



Size. — Six inches long. 



Range. — Very little is known of the distribution and nothing of the habits of 

 this fish. It was originally described from a single specimen found at Provincetown, 

 Mass., many years ago (Storer, 1858, p. 386) , and was not seen again until November, 

 1912, when J. T. Nichols, of the American Museum of Natural History, saw half a 

 dozen taken by an otter trawler off New York on the outer part of the Continental 

 Shelf (lat. about 39° 39'; long. 72° 07') in 52 to 86 fathoms, 53 which is presumably 

 its normal habitat. 



" The American Museum Journal, Vol. XIII, January, 1913, No. 1, p. 44, amplified by personal letter. 



