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519.— BASSOZETUS Gill. ' 



1536. Bassozetus normalis Gill. B. 



Family CXLV.— GADID^. (120) 

 520.— RHINONEMUS Gill. 



1537. Rhinonemus cimbrius Linnaeus. N. Eu. (1226) 



521.— ONOS^ Risso. (436) 



1538. Onos reinhardti Kriiyer. G. (1227) 



1539. Olios ensis Ri-inliardt. G. (1228) 



1540. Ouos rufus ' Gill. B. 



1541. Onos septentrionalis ^ Collett. G. Eu. 



snont to front of dorsal. Eight lower rays of pectorals free, much prolonged, the 

 lougest and most anterior being nearly one-third length of body and more than three 

 times length of the nearest of the normal rays, Avhich are, however, about equal to 

 the least of the free rays ; normal rays of pectorals 4 in body. Head 5 ; depth 6. D. 

 100; A. ca. 85, C. 7 ; P. 19 + 7 ; Lat. 1. ca. 115. Gulf Stream, latitude 34°. (Goode 

 4' Bean. ) 



(Goode &. Bean, 1. c. 202.) 



' Bassozetus Gill. 



(Gill, Proc.U. S. Nat., Mus., 1883, 2.59 ; type Bassozetus normalis Gill.) 



" Dinematichthyiue brotnlids with a slender body ; a narrow differentiated caudal 

 hu ; anii.s about a third of the total length from the snout ; small eyes, and unarmed 

 head and shoulders." Deep sea. (/idrJcj&JK, deep; 5?7r(»K, seeker.) 



Bassozetus normalis GU\. Deep water; latitude 39°. 



(Gill. I.e. 259.) 



The descriptions, generic and specific in this paper, "Diagnoses of new Genera 

 and Species of Deep-sea Fish-like vertebrates," are among the most brief and unsatis- 

 factory in our ichthyological literature. This paper, by a most able and competent 

 ichthyologist, from the brief and superficial character of its descriptions, is likely to 

 cause great confusion in the study of the Bassalian fauna of the Atlantic, unless soon 

 followed by accnrate and sufficient descriptions. 



^ " The Lotina', and apparently the Onina, have doubled or paired frontals. * * * 

 It seeniT probable that they may be segregated in a peculiar family." Gill, Proc. Ac. 

 Nat.Sci. Phila., 1884, 172. 



' Onos rufiis Gill. 



Color in life almost uniform salmon or brick-red ; barbels three ; enlarged dorsal 

 ray not shorter than he<ad; some enlarged brown-colored teeth developed in the ex- 

 terior row. Closely allied to O. ensis, but apparently ditferent in color. Deep sea, 

 latitude 40°. (Gill.) 



(Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1883, 259. ) , 



^ Onos septmtrioiialis Collett. 



Three barbels, two at the nostrils, one at the chin, besides a row of about eight 

 shorter rudimentary barbels along the edge of th« upper lip ; eye small, half length 

 of snout ; cleft of mouth extending far beyond eye, its length nearly equal to that of 

 postorbital part of head ; teeth rather small, unequal; outer teeth of upper jaw and 

 some of the inner teeth of lower enlarged ; first ray of first ilorsal short, about as 

 long as snout; vent midway between tip of snout and last anal ray; lateral line 

 with about 20 large pores, grayish brown, paler below; cavity of mouth white. D. 

 50; A. 42; P. 16. Coast of Norway; one specimen known from Greenland. (Col- 

 lett.) 



(Motella septentrionalis Collett, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 15, 82, 1874 ; Onos septentrionalis 

 Collett, Norske Nord-Havs Exped., 1880, 139.) 



