462 DEEP-SEA FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC BASIK 



AMMOPLEUROPS, Gunther. 



Ammophm-ops. Gi'NTllER, Cat. Fish. Rrit. Mus., II, 1862, 490. 



Eyes on the left .side; ]ic<'toi;il.s none; vertical fms conflnent. Scales ctenoid, decidn 

 ous, of moderate size; one lateral line. Snout sliort, witii tlie iqiper portion not produced 

 into a hook; moutli unsymmetrical, rather narrow; teeth minute, on both sides. 



AMMOPLEUROPS LACTEUS, (Honapauti:), GiNnir.it. 



1'liiiju.iiii lavtea, Bonapartk, Fauna Italica, Pesci, Fasc. v, plate— Costa, Fauna Napn]itan:i. ii, fiO, j)l. 1. — 



Cane.strini, Arch. Zool., i, 43, pi. iv, fig. 3; Pcsci (Tltalia, 168. 

 AmmopUurops lactcus, GCnther, Cat. Fi.sh. Brit. Mus., iv, 490. — Vaii.lant, Exp. Sri. Travailliur i-t Talisman, 



1888, 192. 



AmmnpUuropt;^ with body 3.^ and head nearly 4 times in total lensth (without caudal). 

 Width of interorbital sjiace about onefourtli len^sitli of head. Two nostrils in front of lower 

 eye. Lips not fringed. 



Radial formula: D. 90; A. 72 (D. + A. + C. I(i2— 178); 1>. none; V. 1. 



Color, rosy white, the white side a little brighter. Vertical tins spotteil witli brown near 

 base. 



The French ships obtained it on the coast of Spain in (iO meters (station V) ; off Soudan, 

 250 meters (station LXV); on the Biiuc d'Arguin, 14:0-2:).') nirters (stations xci-xcii); in the 

 Gulf of Gascony, 400 meters {Travailleur, 1882, viii), and off Penon de Yelez in 370-420 

 Mieters. 



ARELIA, Kaup. 



Arelia, Kaup, Wieguiaun's Archiv, 1858, 106. — Uleeker, Enumeratio, 1S4. — tJiNi mkr, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., 

 IV, 493 (as subgenus). 



Sinistral pleuronectoids, having no pectorals and confluent vertical tins. Scales 

 ctenoid and lateral line triple. Snout hooked and moutli twisted; two nostrils on left side. 

 Teeth dextral, minute. 



This, like the related genera or subgenera grouped by Giinther under Ci/nor/Jossus, is 

 strictly East Indian. It is found in deep water in the Bay of Bengal, Inrcstigator station 

 9(5, 98-102 fathoms, where it is represented by Gynoglmsm Garpenteri, Alcock. (Journal of 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal, LViii, ii, 287, pi. XVili, fig. 1; Ann. ami Mag. Nat. Hist., 1890, ii, 

 217.) Dr. Alcock is of the opinion that "the general fades of this tish is certainly bathybial." 



Order CRANIOMI. 



Crrtiiiomi, Gill, Vrm: U. S.Nat. Mus., ISSS, .">89. 



Teleocephali with the scapular arch abnormal, the post-temporal forming an integral 

 l)art of the cranium and the postero-temporal crowded out of jjlace by the side of the pro- 

 scapula above or at the edge of the post-temporal. (Gill.) 



Family TRIGLID^^. 



Lea Triglides, Risso, Hist. Nat. Eur. Mrrid., 1826, iv, 39: . 



TrUjVidd-, Bonaparte, Saggio, etc., 1831; Catalogo Metoilico, 1846,60. — SW/UNSON, Hist. Nat. Fish., etc., 



1X39, II, 179.— Kaup, Wiogmaun's Archiv, 1858, 329.— Giintiiek, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., ii, 86. — Gill, Arr. 



Eaiii. Fish., 1872, 6 (Xo. 53).— .Jordan ami Giliieut, Hull, xvi, U. S. Nat. Mus., 731. 



Body elongate, usually more or less fusiform. Head externally bony, usually entirely 

 cuirassed with rough, bony plates, some of which arc armed with spines; eyes high ; mouth 

 terminal (u- subinferior; preiuaxillaries protractile; maxillary without supplemental bone, 

 slipping under the preorbital; teeth very small, in bands in the Jaws, anil usually on 

 the vomer and palatines; gills 4, a large slit behind the fourth; pseudobranchiiB present; 

 gill-rakers various; gill-membranes free or variously attached to the isthmus. Yentral 

 fins thoracic, wide apart, separated by a flat area, I, 4 or I, 5. Spinous dorsal present, 



