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Table 14. — Counts and measurements made on Hubbsichthys laurae 

 [All measurements expressed in hundredths of the standard length] 



Characters 



U.S.N.M. 

 No. 120999 

 Holotype 



Standard length in millimeters - 



Length of head -- 



Postorbital length of head 



Greatest depth of body-- -.- -- 



Length of snout 



Diameter of eye. ..- 



Interorbital space at middle of orbits 



Length of caudal peduncle. - 



Least depth of caudal peduncle - 



Greatest width of head - 



Distance from snout to dorsal origin 



Snout to anal origin. 



Snout to pectoral insertion 



Snout to pelvic insertion 



Length of longest ray of dorsal fin 



Length of longest ray of anal fin 



Length of longest ray of pectoral fin 



Length of longest ray of pelvic fin 



Length of longest ray of caudal fin 



Length of depressed dorsal fin 



Length of depressed anal fin 



Length of base of dorsal fin — - 



Length of base of anal fin — 



Scales from head to midcaudal fin base... 



Scales from dorsal origin to anal origin 



Scales in a zigzag row around caudal pedimcle 



Scales in front of dorsal plus enlarged ones on head 



Dorsal rays.. .-- 



Anal rays - - 



Pectoral rays 



Pelvic rays 



14.0 

 33.6 

 13.6 

 30.0 

 8.57 

 12.1 

 15.7 

 33.6 

 15.7 

 20.7 

 52.8 

 57.2 

 32.9 

 47.2 

 12.1 

 15.7 

 20.7 

 11.4 

 25.0 

 30.0 

 21.4 

 24.3 

 8.57 



32 

 8 



14 



9+3 or 4 



i, 12 



iii, 7 



15-15 



7-7 



Family POECILIIDAE 



As Dr. Carl L. Hubbs, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography- 

 had begun work on the PoeciHidae of Venezuela collected by Dr. 

 F. F. Bond, he wished to work up the national collections of this 

 family. Since his studies are still in progress I have omitted this 

 material, along with some collected by me in Venezuela, 



Genus POECILIA Bloch and Schneider 



Poecilia Bloch and Schneider, Systema ichthyologiae, p. 452, ISOl. (Genotype, 

 Poecilia vivipara Bloch and Schneider.) 



POECILIA VIVIPARA Bloch and Schneider 



Poecilia vivpara Block and Schneider, Systema ichthyologiae, p. 452, 1801 

 (Surinam). — Ernst, Estudios sobre la flora y fauna de Venezuela, p. 282, 

 1877 (creeks near Caracas). — Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1913, p. 1006, 

 fig. 173c (Venezuela and Leeward Islands to Rfo La Phita). — de Beaufort, 

 Studies on the fauna of Curasao, Aruba, Bonaire, and the Venezuelan Islands, 

 vol. 2, p. Ill, 1940 (Peninsula de Paraguana, Estanque de Moruy, Estanque 

 de Santa F6, Estanque de Santa Ana, Venezuela). 

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