Jordan and Evermann.— Fishes of North America. 2697 



3067. AOHIRl'S KLUNZINGERI (Steindacliner). 



Head S^ in bo.lv; .leptli If. D.65; A. 51; scales 37-80-42; eye 3J in 



W b tht of dorsal and anal U; caudal 1. Body moderately broad; 



e's L t^: same vertical line ; interorbital as wide as length ot eye ; ang^e 



of mouth reaching a little past front of lower eye ; right under lip trmged , 



iTes near upper profile of head enlarged, all scales strongly cenou; 



ca of eyed side without hair-like filaments. Pector^d of right sue 



only present, with about 6 rays; caudal round behind Color brownish, 



with 9 or 10 narrow blackish cross lines ; small rounded blackish spots on 



he membranes of each of the vertical fins, much as in A. mcai.^ (Stein- 



lt!-hTer.) Pacific coast of tropical America; Panama *<> G-^;^^- " 



(Named for Dr. C. B. Klunzinger, Professor of Zoology at Stuttgart, 



author of Memoirs on the Fishes of the Red Sea.) 



,oUa Huminoeri, Sxeinhachkek. Zur Fiscbe des Cauca .nd der Tliisse bci Guayaquil, 



44, 1879, Guayaquil. , -rr s Nat Mus 1885, 391; JoEDAN & Goss, Review 



Achini^ Uumingeri, Jordan, Proc. U. fe. :Nat. Mus. i8»o, , 

 Mounders and Soles, 312, 1889. 



3068. ACHIRUS LINKATUS (LinnPRUs). 



Head 31 ; depth about 1*. D. 49 to 58 ; A. 38 to 44 ; scales 75 to 85. Pec- 

 toral fin of right side only developed, of 4 to 6 rays, considerably longer 

 hi eye Body with 8 to 10 narrow vertical dark bars, hese sometimes 

 obsolete with age; vertical fins all with round dark spots, these usual y 

 espe luy Itifct on the caudal fin; some of the scales ot eyed side with 

 black ha^r-like appendages; pectoral fin with 5 or 6 rays, about 3 m h ad 

 r length equal to that from outer edge of one eye to outer edge of anothei 

 cllor brown, the young spotted with whitish, the adult sometimes with 

 Lrker; body with about 8 narrow vertical cross streaks of blackish. 

 W ^t ImlL Ld Brazil, Florida Keys to Uruguay; common and variable. 



We have placed the Florida species, com,/., and /,.«c/uah.s, in the syn- 

 onvmv of llncatm. They differ from the latter only in the slightly smaller 

 nfmber of S:: scales and fin rays. The following table shows our count 

 of a number of specimens from diflferei:t localities : ; 



Locality. 



Species. 



Key West 



Pensacola 



Cienfaegos 



liio Janeiro 



Do 



Kio Grande do Sul. 



Coary 



Mauacapnru 



comifer 



brachialis 



lineatus 



niaculipinnis. 

 maculipinnis. 

 niaculipinnis. 

 maculipinnis. 

 maculipinnis. 



D. i A. Scales 



50 35 



51 37 

 54 43 

 57 42 



54 44 

 49 38 

 53 40 



55 42 



It is evident from this table that neither the fin rays nor the sea es form 

 characters by which the subspecies can be absolutely distinguished It 

 is :;?denTalso, from the examination of large series of specimens, that the 

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