46. SALMONID^ ARGENTINA. 
205 
iu lengtli of body; ventrals uot reacbing veut, their length 8.^ in body. 
Head depth I). 10; A. 15; P. 11; V. 8; Lat. 1. 70. L. 12 
inches. Pacific coast, from California northward; abundant, s])awning 
in the surf. A very lirm-lleshed and fat little fish, scarcely inferior to 
the eulachon. 
(Argentina pretiosa Grd. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1854, 155: Osmerus preiiosm 
Girard, U. S. Pac. R. R. Sarv. Fish. 324 : Osmerus elongatiis Ajves, Proc. Acad. Nat. 
Sci. Phila. 1854, 17.) 
483. II. o3i<3us (Pallas) Giiuther. 
Darker. Fins higher, the longest dorsal ray G in length of body; 
pectorals reaching two-thirds the distance to root of ventrals, their 
length 5 in body ; ventrals 0 in length of body. Lat. 1. 5G-G0. Alaska 
and Kamtschatka, spawning iu fresh-water ponds. (Bean, MSS.) 
(Sahno (Osmerus) o/id«s Pallas, Zoogr. Ross. As. iii, 391; Giiuther, vi, 169, iu part.) 
141. — ARGEATIAA Liuuaeus. 
Argentines. 
(Artedi; Linuseus, Syst. Nat. : type Argentina splujrcena L.) 
Body oblong, covered with rather large cycloid scales, which are 
often rough with spinous points. Mouth small, the maxillaries very 
short, not reaching to the eye. Eye very large. Jaws toothless; an 
arched series of minute teeth on the head of the vomer and on the fore 
part of the palatine; tongue typically, with a series of small curved 
teeth on each side. Dorsal fin short, in advance of the ventrals. Cau- 
dal fin deeply forked. Eggs small. Fishes of the deep waters of the 
Korth Atlantic and Mediterranean, never entering fresh waters. (Latin 
argentum^ silver.) 
* Scales more or less rough. (Silas Reiuhardt.*) 
484. A. sya’lesasiaBESa Goode & Beau. « 
Body compressed. Head not quite twice as long as deep. Snout 
nearly 3i in head. Insertion of dorsal midway between snout and adi- 
pose fin; ventrals under last ray of dorsal. Scales very large, cycloid, 
covered with minute asperities; a median row of scales along the back 
and the beliy. Color olivaceous ; sides silvery. Head 4^; depth 5J. 
B. G; D. 12; A. 13; Y. 14; scales 3-G0-4. L. 17 inches. Sable Island 
Bank, iu deep water. 
(Goode & Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. 1878, 261.) 
* Rciuhardt, Bemiirku. til deu Skaud. Icktliyol. ’ll : type Sahno silus Ascauius. 
(From the Nor^Yegian uame Vas-Sil, said to meau rough herriug.) 
