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SMITHSON W MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



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number, and the last reviser of the group C rate Regan in 1003 

 ed as many as thirteen distributed among three genera — 



V- \il the species have a very 

 amily likeness, all having a wide mouth, gills on the lower 

 halves of the first three branchial arches only, the fourth being with- 

 pseudobranchiae, the three epipharyngeal bones of each side 

 escent (the first being undeveloped), and the first two dentig 

 s, but the last edentulc - 

 The . lifferences ar< >phius and I s have 



the " gill-openings entirely below or behind the pectorals," while 

 S has them "parti) below, partly in front of and above 

 the pectorals " : I ■ s has as many as 27 to 32 vertebrae, while all 

 the others have only " about 10 vertebrae." The Lophius pis. 



ain a length of three feet or more, but most of the species, 

 - known, are less than a fo 



s - tlie 



er E. 



