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108(6). TRIGLID^. 
dark bar at base of pectorals; belly white. Body elongate, the tail very 
slender, broader than deep; head narrow, the cheeks sub vertical, the 
snout long and pointed; mouth fl -shaped, wholly inferior; distance from 
I)remaxillaries to tip of nasal spines less than half snout; maxillary 
and lower side of snout with dense tufts of long cirri as long as eye; 
a few on mandible, none on branchiostegal region. Bye large, shorter 
than snout, 4 in head; orbital rim ijromineiit above only; snout with 
two spines directed forward, then two larger ones hooked backward, far 
behind which are two smaller ones close together, directed upward; 
orbital bones rugose, with a strong suijraocular spine only; behind it a 
sharp occipital ridge on each side, each ending in a single spine; no pit 
at the occiput, the vertex nearly plane; opercle and preopercle strongly 
striate, the latter with a ridge and a blunt spine; suborbital very broad, 
nearly as deep as eye, striate, with a double ridge at its lower margin, 
the upper ridge with two or three spines; head with about 18 distinct 
si)ines in all. Plates of body strongly striate, those above ending in 
strong spines; breast with about twelve polygonal plates; slight asper- 
ities at base of i)ectoral ; ventrals very short, not longer than eye in 9 , 
about half longer than eye in i ; pectorals large, about reaching anal; 
caudal peduncle long, about half length of body without head; dorsals 
high in <?, the two tins closely contiguous. Head 3§; dei)th 0. D. IX-7 ; 
A. 8; Lat. 1. 37 ; vert. 12 + 27. L. 12 inches. Puget Sound to Alaska; 
common northward, 
(Agoutis acipenserinus Tilesius, M^m. Acad. St. Petersb. iv, 422, 1813. Agonus acipensen^ 
nasGiinther, ii, 212: Podothecus peristethus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 1861,260: 
Paragonus acipenserinus Gill, 1. c. 167: Agonus acipenserinus Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. 
U. S. Nat. Mus. iii, 332, 1880.) 
Family CVIII (6).— TRIGLID^.* 
{The Gurnards.) 
Body elongate, usually more or less fusiform, covered with scales or 
series of bony plates. Head externally bony, usually entirely cuirassed 
with rough, bony plates, some of which are armed with spines; eyes 
high; mouth terminal or subinferior; premaxillaries protractile; max- 
illary without supplemental bone, slipping under the preorbital; teeth 
very small, in bands in the jaws, and usually on the vomer and pala- 
tines, sometimes entirely wanting; gills 4, a large slit behind the 
fourth; pseudobranchim present ; gill-rakers various; gill-membranes 
* Family 108 (a), Agonidw is included under Triglidw, in the key to families, on page 
79. 
