Jordan and Evcnnann. — Fishes of North America. 2729 



1063. CERATIAS, Kroyer. 

 Ceratias, Keoyer, Naturliist. Tidsskrift. 2 Rsekke, 1,639, 1844 (holbolli). 



Head and body much compressed and elevated, oblong, coveied with 

 prickly skin. Mouth wide, its cleft nearly vertical; teeth in jaws conic, 

 movable, of moderate size; no teeth on vomer or palatines. Gills 2^; 

 gill arches unarmed. Spinous dorsal reduced to 2 spines, 1 on the head, 

 the other on the back, the basal element of the second spine exserted; the 

 cephalic sinne much elongate; soft dorsal and anal short; pectorals very 

 short, broad, of about 20 rays. Caudal fin much produced, fan-shaped, 

 with exserted rays. Pyloric cfeca 2, small. Skeleton soft, fibrous. Green- 

 land. {KEpariai, one that has horns.) 



3109. CERATIAS HOLBOLLI, Kroyer. 



D. 1-1,4; A. 4; P. 19; C. 10. Head 2f ; depth nearly 2 ; head deeper 

 than long; eyes small, not more than ^/n the length of the head; free rays 

 of the head a little shorter than to the base of the caudal fin ; the forked 

 part of the caudal fin shorter than the length of the fish; the length 

 of the pectoral fin equals almost ^ru the entire length of the fish, the mem- 

 branes from the dorsal and anal fins ijosteriorly extend almost to the base 

 of the caudal fin. Color entirely black. (Kroyer.) North Atlantic ; 4 

 specimens known ; 3 from Greenland, 1 from Nova Scotia. (Named for 

 C. HolboU, a Danish naturalist.) 



Gerarta* /loJftoJH, Kkoyee, Naturh. Tidsskr. 1844, 639, Greenland; Gunther, Cat., in, 205, 

 1861; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 847, 1883; Gooue & Bean, Uceauic Ichthyology, 

 489, pi. 117, fig. 394, 1896. 



1064. MANCALIAS, Gill. 



Mancalias, Gill, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 227 (uranoteopus). 

 Typhlopiaras, GiLL, Forest and Stream, New York, 1883, Nov. 8, 284 (shiifeldti) . 



General characters of Ceratias, but with the spinous dorsal reduced to 

 a single rostral spiue, and 2 fleshy elaviform tubercles or caruncles behind 

 it. Pectoral fins narrow, with 10 to 1.5 slender rays, (mancus, defective, 

 " with a quasi-diminutive termination to correspond with Ceratias") 



a. Dorsal caruncles placed before dorsal fin a distance 6 times in length of trunk from 



gill oiiening to base of caudal. URANOSCOPUS, 3110. 



aa. Dorsal caruncles placed nearer dorsal, the distance from dorsal 4i times in trunk, 



as above. Shufeldti, 3111. 



3110. .WAXCALIAS UBANO.SCOPUS (Murray). 



D. I, 3 or 4; A. 4; C. 8; P. 10. Anterior spine of first dorsal produced in 

 a long filament, ending in a pear-shaped bulb, terminating in a semitrans- 

 parent whitish spot, this spine originating on posterior part of head, and 

 reacliing, when depressed, nearly to the tip of tail; far behind this are 2 

 short, fleshy tubercles, lying in a depression in front of second dorsal. 

 Teeth moderate, dei^ressible. Skin everywhere with minute embedded 

 conical spines. Eye very small, placed high on the middle of the head. 

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