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I'l.ATMSMI'.S (lll'ri'EROSOMAIA) 



lS4(), C.lt. niototl. Ppsci 



PlaUssn Cyclops, I'lcniiiig. iSjS, Urit. Anim., p. igg. 



lihombtis aculcaliis, Clottsche, 1S35, Arch. Nntiirgcscli.. i {:), p. 172. 



Fsctla maximum, SH-airison, 1839, N. H. Fishes, etc., il. p. 302 ; Bon 



Europ., p. 49. 



PUuroiicclcs rlwmbus, Gray, 1854, Cat. Fish. Gronnw, p. <).j. 

 llnllius miiximus, Jordan .ind Gilbert. 188;, Bull. U.S. N'.il. Mus., x\ i, p. 577 ; Collctt, 1SS4, Nyl. Mac. 



Naturv. Christiania, xxix, p. 100; I.illjcbors, iSoi. SveriK. Norg. I'iskar. il, p. 303; Smill, 



1893. Scand. Fisli., i, p. 434, pi. xvm. fie, i ; CoUett, I'ms, Vid.-Selsk. I'orh , (10..::), p. 86 ; 



Chabanaud, 1931, Riviera Sci., Suppl. Mem. n. p. ji ; ( habanaud, mu, Hull. .Mus. Hist. 



iiat. Paris. (2) iii. p. 303. 



■lou: 



Holt, 1S91, Sci. Trans. R. Dublin Soc., (;) iv. p. 469, pi. xlviii, fig. 18, xlix. fig. ;.■; ; Canu. 1893, 

 Ann. Stat, aquic. Boulogne, i, p. 131, pi. x, tigs. 1-3 ; Petersen, 1894, Rep. Danish Biol. Stat., iv, 

 (1893), pp. 41, 131, pi. i, figs. 1-4: Mcintosh, 1S95, Rep. Fish. Board Scotland, xiii (3), p. 224, 

 pi. viii, figs. 1-14; Cunningham, 1896, N. H. Market. Mar. Fish., p. 260, figs. 120-124; 

 Mcintosh and Masterman, 1897, Brit. Mar. Food-fish., p. 328, figs. ; 

 Meercsunters., Abt. Helgoland, n.f., ii (i), p. 282, pi. v, figs. 10, 20, 

 .-Inn. .Mus. hist. nat. Marseille, Zool., v (2), p. 65, pi. viii, figs. 85-88 ; 

 1900, Wiss. Meeresunters., Abt. Helgoland, n.f., iii, p. 230^ ; Hoc 

 Kxplor. Mer.jiii, p. 49, pi. V ; Ehrenbauni, 1905, in Brandt and Apste 

 I. Eier Larv. Fisch. (i), p. 194, fig. 77. 



Body of a rounded rhomboid form, IJcpth of body i J to 1 3 in the leiifitli, length 

 of head 2? to 3. Snout much longer than eye, diameter of which is o to 1 1 m lengtli 

 of head and (in adults) les.s than interorbital width ; anterior margins of eyes about 

 level or lower a little in advance of upper, which is well separated from edge of head. 

 Maxillary extending to below posterior part of eye or beyond, length 2 J to 2 J in that 



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