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of the teeth fang-like; premaxillaries laterally with minute teeth; 

 4 or 5 longer teeth in front; vomer with minute teeth ; anterior palatine 

 teeth long, the posterior short ; teeth of lower jaw slender, distant, 

 unequal. Scales deciduous, those of lateral line enlarged. Fins all very 

 small ; ventrals entirely behind dorsal, their distance from front of orbit 

 twice that from base of caudal ; distance from front of dorsal to base of 

 caudal half its distance from tip of snout; caudal widely forked. Dusky 

 olivaceous ; sides of head silvery ; bases of fins generally black ; rami of 

 mandible each with a double series of minute phosphorescent spots. 

 Puget Sound; one specimen known, scarcely diftenng from the preced- 

 ing, the teeth a little weaker, (coruscans, sparkling.) 



Paralepis contscans, Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1880, 411, Port Townsend. 



(Type, No. 27171. Coll. Brown.) 

 Sudi.1 coniscans, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 278, 1883. 



288. PARALEPIS, Risso. 



Paralepis, Risso, Hist. Nat. Eur. Merid., in, 472, 182fi, (corerjonoiiles). 



Head and body elongate, compressed, covered with deciduous scales, 

 those of the lateral line being the largest. Cleft of the mouth very 

 wide; maxillary developed, closely adherent to the intermaxillary. 

 Teeth unequal in size, some in the mandible and on the palatine bones 

 being rather larger than the others ; they are arranged in single series, 

 in the intermaxillary and mandible, on the palatine and pterygoid bones. 

 Eye large. Pectoral fins well developed; ventrals small, inserted at a 

 great distance from the pectorals, below or immediately behind or m 

 front of the dorsal fin ; dorsal fin short, on the hind part of the body ; 

 adipose fin small ; anal elongate, occupying the end of the tail ; caudal 

 emarginate. Gill opening very wide, the outer branchial arch beset 

 with short, spine-like gill rakers; pseudobranchiie well developed; 

 branchiostegals 7. Air bladder none. Pyloric appendages none, (napu, 

 near; lenic, scale; scales on side.) 



899. PARALEPIS COREGONOIDES, Ri.sso. 



Head 4 ; depth 12 ; eye 5. U. 10 ; A. 23 ; P. 13 ; V. 9. Body elongate. 

 Head compressed. Snout long, conical ; cleft of mouth moderate ; max- 

 illary rod-like, adherent to premaxillary. Teeth in a single row in the 

 intermaxillary, a few enlarged anteriorly; also on palatines and ptery- 

 goids. Ventral fin very short, inserted below the anterior part of the 

 dorsal. Gill openings very large, free from the isthmus; gill rakers very 

 numerous, minute. Color silvery; slightly bluish upon the back ; blackish 

 upon the belly on account of the transparency of the black peritoneum; 

 along the lateral line there are some blackish dots ; iris silvery ; the 

 pupil blackish, silvery. Rare in the Mediterranean. The AlhaU-oss 

 obtained a specimen (No. 37860, U. S. N. M.) from station 2393, at a depth 

 of 525 fathoms. (Cor((/oH«.s, the whitefish ; eaJof, likeness.) (Eu.) 



Paralepis coi-egonoifh/!, Hisso, Hist, Nat. lOuropo Meridionale, in, 472, pi. vil, fig. 15, 1820, Nice; 

 GOntheb, Cat., 419, 1864; Goode & Bean, Oceanic Ichthyology, 119, 1895. 



