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  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION 
  

   U. 
  S. 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Vol. 
  96 
  Washington: 
  1945 
  No. 
  319 
  2 
  

  

  THREE 
  NEW 
  SCIAEXID 
  FISHES 
  OF 
  THE 
  GENUS 
  OPHIO- 
  

   SCTON 
  FROM 
  THE 
  ATLANTIC 
  COASTS 
  OF 
  CENTRAL 
  

   AND 
  SOUTH 
  AMERICA 
  

  

  By 
  Leonard 
  P. 
  Schultz 
  

  

  During 
  my 
  studies 
  of 
  the 
  sciaenid 
  fishes 
  of 
  Venezuela 
  I 
  found 
  a 
  

   specimen 
  of 
  phioscion 
  (U.S.N.M. 
  No. 
  86710) 
  from 
  Uruguay, 
  col- 
  

   lected 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  Dr. 
  Hugh 
  M. 
  Smith 
  in 
  1922, 
  with 
  28 
  soft 
  rays 
  in 
  the 
  

   dorsal 
  fin. 
  This 
  count 
  did 
  not 
  agree 
  with 
  the 
  statements 
  of 
  recent 
  

   authors 
  who 
  have 
  reported 
  on 
  fishes 
  from 
  Panama 
  and 
  from 
  the 
  

   West 
  Indies 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  adustus. 
  Although 
  Jenyns 
  and 
  

   Agassiz 
  each 
  counted 
  28 
  soft 
  dorsal 
  rays 
  for 
  adustus 
  from 
  Maldonado 
  

   and 
  Montevideo, 
  Jordan 
  and 
  Eigenmann 
  in 
  their 
  review 
  of 
  the 
  

   Soiaenidae 
  (Rop. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Comm. 
  Fish 
  and 
  Fisheries 
  for 
  1886, 
  pt. 
  14, 
  

   p. 
  403, 
  1889) 
  decided 
  that 
  Agassiz's 
  count 
  was 
  incorrect 
  and 
  should 
  

   have 
  been 
  22 
  or 
  23, 
  or 
  perhaps 
  18 
  or 
  19. 
  Thus 
  the 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  western 
  

   Atlantic 
  were 
  confused 
  in 
  the 
  first 
  review 
  and 
  the 
  name 
  adustu,'i 
  has 
  

   been 
  applied 
  to 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  Atlantic 
  species. 
  

  

  This 
  contribution 
  discusses 
  the 
  relationships 
  of 
  the 
  western 
  Atlantic 
  

   species 
  of 
  the 
  genus 
  Ophioscion 
  and 
  describes 
  three 
  new 
  species 
  from 
  

   Panama, 
  Venezuela, 
  and 
  Brazil. 
  

  

  Drawings 
  of 
  figures 
  6 
  to 
  8 
  were 
  made 
  by 
  Mrs. 
  A. 
  M. 
  Awl. 
  

  

  GenuH 
  OPHIOSCION 
  Gill 
  

  

  OlihioMfion 
  (JiLr.. 
  I'roo. 
  Afnd. 
  Nat.'Sci. 
  I'liiliidcliihia, 
  vol. 
  ITi, 
  p. 
  1(V5, 
  1863. 
  (Type: 
  

   OphioJtritm 
  typU-HH 
  GUI, 
  Itasj'd 
  on 
  U.S.N.M. 
  No. 
  iJ2SGl, 
  west 
  con.st 
  of 
  Panama.) 
  

  

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