10-2 (a). LATILID.E — CAUl.OLATILUS. 625 



33C.-€AlII.OI.ATII.i:S Gill. 

 Blanquinos. 



(Dckaya* Cooper; preoccupied.) 



(CaulolatUus Gill, Proc. Acad. Xat. Sci. Pliila. 1862,240; iiomcn nudum, defined in Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 18o5, 66: type Latilua chrjjsops C. &V.) 



Boilj^ elongate, subfusiforin, not strongly compressed, heavy forward, 

 tapering to a rather sleuder caudal jied uncle. Profile of head strongly 

 arched. Mouth moderate, little oblique, the jaws nearly equal; lii)s 

 thick; maxillary narrow, not slii)phig under preorbital; teeth in villi- 

 I'orm bands, preceded by a row of stronger acute teeth; hindmost teeth 

 in each jaw canine-like, directed forward; posterior canines of upper 

 jaw largest; no teeth on vomer or palatines; preopercle pectinate, the 

 teeth nearly even; opercle with a blunt, tlat spine. Eyes large, lateral. 

 Gill-membranes slightl}" connected, forming a fold across the isthmus, 

 with which they are narrowly joined. Branchioslegals G. Gill-rakers 

 short and stout. oS^ostrils double, round, close together. Scales snmll, 

 firm, ctenoid. Lateral line continuous, concurrent with ihe back. Dor- 

 sal with 7-9 slender, pointed, graduated spines, and 22-27 soft rays; 

 anal similar to soft dorsal, with 1 or 2 small spines, and more than 20 

 soft rays; caudal fin forked; ventral fins thoracic; no adipose append- 

 age at the nape. Large fishes of the warm seas. (z«m/o;-, stem ; Latilus — 

 *. c, many-rayed Latili(s.) 



9730 C. pruBlceBJS (Jenyus) Gill. — TVhUe-fsh ; TeUow-tail. 



Olivaceous, with bluish rellections; brownish above, greenish below; 

 fins light greenish olive, tinged with bluish and orange, the colors 

 always pale; dorsal and anal greenish, with a bluish band near the 

 tip; axil dusky. I'lesh of the occiput becoming thick with age, as in 

 Harpe. Eye large, about half the convex interorbital space, 4A in head. 

 Maxillaries reaching front of eye. Teeth rather strong. Preopercle 

 finely, evenly, and acutely serrate behind, nearly entire below; pre- 

 opercle, interopercle, and i)reorbital naked; cheeks and opercles scaly; 

 top of head scaled on the median line to between the eyes. Dorsal 

 spines flexible; ventrals slightly behind the pectorals, the outer rays 

 longest; caudal moderately forked, the u])per lobe the longer; caudal 

 pcduiu'le short and slender, abruptly contracted; pectorals falcate, 

 longer than caudal, | length of the head. Head 3§; depth 4. D. IX- 



* Dekaija Cooper, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1804, 711: type Ddcaija avomnla Cooper; 

 not Dekatjia Milne-Edwards &, Ilainie, 1851; a genus of corals. 



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