﻿REVISION 
  OF 
  AMERICAN 
  CLINGFISHES 
  — 
  SCHULTZ 
  

  

  67 
  

  

  series. 
  The 
  fleshy 
  border 
  lateral 
  to 
  them 
  only 
  slightly 
  crenulated 
  before 
  the 
  

   anterior 
  ray 
  of 
  the 
  ventral 
  fin. 
  The 
  lower 
  angle 
  of 
  the 
  pectoral 
  moderately 
  

   prouiinent, 
  not 
  cxserted. 
  Opercular 
  cleft 
  extending 
  upward 
  to 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  Gth 
  

   ray, 
  the 
  fold 
  before 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  fin 
  complete, 
  continuous 
  with 
  the 
  fleshy 
  

   border 
  of 
  the 
  operculum. 
  Anterior 
  teeth 
  little 
  if 
  any 
  flattened, 
  the 
  lateral 
  in 
  

   the 
  upper 
  j;iw 
  running 
  in 
  behind 
  tiie 
  front 
  but 
  not 
  as 
  regularly 
  as 
  in 
  some. 
  . 
  . 
  

  

  Table 
  .3. 
  — 
  Counts 
  and 
  measurements 
  made 
  on 
  species 
  of 
  Cotylis, 
  expressed 
  

   in 
  hundredths 
  of 
  the 
  standard 
  length 
  

  

  See 
  table 
  3 
  for 
  measurements 
  made 
  on 
  two 
  specimens 
  from 
  Brazil. 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  cxaiiiinod 
  tlie 
  type 
  of 
  Gohirsox 
  ynjiui 
  Nichols 
  and 
  find 
  that 
  it 
  

   jjosse.sses 
  the 
  harbcllike 
  .structures 
  around 
  the 
  mouth 
  and 
  in 
  other 
  

   respects 
  resembles 
  Cotylis 
  nigripinnis 
  nigHpinnis 
  to 
  which 
  I 
  refer 
  it 
  

  

  