[SCIENTIFIC RESULTS OF THE PHILIPPINE CRUISE OF THE FISHERIES STEAMER 

 " ALBATROSS," 1907-1910.— No. 21.] 



DESCRIPTIONS OF A NEW FAIVIILY, TWO NEW GENERA, 

 AND TWENTY-NINE NEW SPECIES OF ANACANTHINE 

 FISHES FROM THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND CON- 

 TIGUOUS WATERS. 



By Lewis Radcliffe/ 



Scientific Assistant, United States Bureau of Fisheries. 



In the present paper there are described the new fishes of the order 

 Anacanthini obtained on the Pliilippine cruise of the fisheries steamer 

 Albatross. The famiUes represented are the Gadidge, Macrouridse, 

 Macrouroididse (new), and Ateleopodidas, the last being placed pro- 

 visionally in this order. 



Family GADID^. 



Genus PHYSICULUS Kaup. 

 PHYSICULUS NIGRESCENS Smith and RadclifEe, new species. 

 Plate 22, fig. 1. 



Dorsal 8-66; anal 72; ventrals 6; pectorals 23; scales about 9 + 

 25-100. 



Head 4.12 (4.56 in total length), depressed, as broad as deep, 

 broadly rounded from shoulders to snout; body compressed, tapering 

 rapidly posteriorly to a very narrow peduncle, greatest depth 5.15 

 (5.70 in total length); eye rather small, subcircular, 4.80 in head, 

 1.44 in snout, 1.52 in interorbital; snout 3.33, broad, blunt, and 

 rounded at the end; mouth large, obhque, lower jaw included; 

 maxillaiy 2.06, barely reaching vertical from posterior margin of 

 orbit; bands of villiform teeth on jaws; vomer and palate edentu- 

 lous; interorbital 3.43, broad and flat; nostrils small, close together, 

 immecUately in front of eyes; barbel small, about five-twelfths 

 diameter of eye; pseudobrancliise absent; gill-rakers on first arch 

 short, 3 + 13; vent situated at one-thu'd of the distance from origin 

 of anal to base of ventrals; scales small, covering head and body, 

 lateral fine arched anteriorly. 



• In the study of this collection the writer has had the assistance of Df. Hugh M., Smith, who assumes 

 joint authority for the new forms described. 



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