Fishes of the Western North Atlantic 



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Trunk at origin of pectoral: hrea.dih 11.6; height 11.6. 

 Snout length in front of: outer nostrils 6.0 ; mouth lO.O. 

 Eye: horizontal diameter 2.2. 

 Mouth: breadth 7.4; height 5.2. 

 Nostrils: distance between inner ends 5.2. 



Gill opening lengths: ist 2.2} 2nd 2.35 3rd 2.55 4th 2.3; 5th 1.8. 

 First dorsal fin: vertical height 7.83 length of base 9.7. 

 Second dorsal fin: vertical height 2.0; length of base 3.5. 

 Anal fin: vertical height 2.7; length of base 4.0. 

 Caudal fin: upper margin 26.9 ; lower anterior margin 1 1.4. 

 Pectoral fin: outer margin 16.8 j inner margin 5.4; distal margin 13.2. 

 Distance from snout to: ist dorsal 34.7; 2nd dorsal 64.3; upper caudal 73.1 j pec- 

 toral 25.2} pelvics 51.5; anal 63.0. 



Interspace between: ist and 2nd dorsals 23.45 2nd dorsal and caudal 5.8 j anal and 

 caudal 6.3. 

 Distance from origin to origin of: pectoral and pelvics 29.2; pelvics and anal 12.1. 



Figure 54.. Hyfofrion signatus, female, 935 mm. long, from off South Carolina (U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 

 38508). A Anterior part of head from below, about 0.3 x natural size. B Left-hand nostril, about 2.6 x. 

 C Left-hand upper and lower teeth, about 1.5 x. D Sixth upper tooth. E Twelfth upper tooth. F Fourth 

 lower tooth. G Eleventh lower tooth. D—G, about 3.0 x. H Dermal denticles, about 30 x. / Dermal denticle, 

 apical view, about 60 x. 



