NEW FISHES IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE 

 ALLAN HANCOCK FOUNDATION 



(Plates 29-32) 

 Charles B. Wade 



Allan Hancock Foundation 

 The University of Southern California 



As a result of the scientific explorations of the Hancock Pacific 

 Expeditions' motor cruiser Vclero III in Eastern Pacific waters and east- 

 ward along the north coast of South America as far as the island of 

 Trinidad, considerable collections of fishes have been acquired. These 

 fishes have been deposited in the collections of the Allan Hancock 

 Foundation at The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 

 California. This paper is one of a series describing the new forms found 

 while incorporating these fishes into the collections of the Foundation. 

 From time to time, as new species are discovered, additional papers 

 describing them will be published. 



The following species are described in this paper as new to science: 

 Kathetostoma ornatus, Gobiosoma spiriti-sancti, Parrella ginsbiirgi, and 

 Anthias gordensis. All holotypes and the several paratypes are deposited 

 in the collections of the Allan Hancock Foundation. 



The author wishes to take this opportunity to thank Dr. George S. 

 Myers, Natural History Museum, Stanford University, for his sugges- 

 tions in preparing this paper. The drawings were made by Mr. Anker 

 Petersen, staf? artist, of the Allan Hancock Foundation. 



Uranoscopidae 



Genus KATHETOSTOMA Gunther 



Kathetostoma Gunther, 1860, p. 231 (type by monotype Uranoscopus 

 laeve Bloch and Schneider). 

 Body short and robust, head large. Dorsal fin single, without spines. 

 Ventral fins jugular, I, 5, not adnate to the abdomen. Pectoral rays 

 branched. Some of the head bones armed with spines. Body entirely 

 naked. Cleft mouth vertical or nearly so. Pseudobranchiae present. 

 Branchiostegal rays 6. Air bladder absent. 



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