BRAxMOIDS. 



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I'TEHYCOMJiUS 131! AMA. 



FiR. 21. 



'Silrcr-irliite, soini'ii'liaf ditrker on the hack, iritli flic dorsal, anal, and ventral fins hJackish and the pectoral 



lif/hf yellow." Lilljeboug. 



Fig. 21. Pterycombus hrama from Haiumerfest. ', ., luitural size. After Fries and v. Wpight. 



R. br. 7; D." 9 + (42—44); .4. 3 + (37—40); P. 2 + 19; 

 r. 'j; C. 20; L. lat. 49. 

 ■Si/ii. Pterycombvs Brama, Fn., Vet.-Akad. Hand]. 1837, p. 1.5, tab. 



II; NiLSS., Skand. Fn., Fisk., p. 12.5; Lillj., Bidr. kanii. 



Ft. br., Ups. Univ. Festskr. 4 Nov. 1864; EsM., Forh. SUand. 



Naturf. Mode, Clirist. 1808, p. 522; Coll., Vid. Selsk. Forh. 



1874, TilliPgsU., p. 47; ibid. 1879, p. 30; LiJTK., Spol. 



Atl, Kbhvii. Vid. Selsk. Slvr., ser. 5, vol. XII, p. 501, tab. 



IV, fig. 4; Lillj.. A'c, yonj. Fiskav, I, p. 291. 

 Obs. We linve had at our disposition only two dried specimens, 

 which are in several respects incomplete. The one, the property of 

 tlie Royal lluseuni and described by Fries, was brouglit by Captain 

 BlSMAiiK in 1834 from Hammerfest in Norway, the other, somewhat 

 smaller — about 301 mm. in length from the tip of tlie snout to 

 the end of the middle caudal rays — and also from Finmark, was 

 kindly lent by the Zoological Museum of Upsala University. We have 

 therefore thought it best to reproduce v. Wright's careful figure of the 

 former specimen, even with the imperfections that naturally affect it. 



The specimen described l)v Fries measured 384 

 mm. from tlie tij) of the snout to the middle ravs of 

 the caudal tin, when it came into his possession, and 

 the gi-eatest depth of the body was 198 mm. The 



" Number of rays in D., A. and ('. according to Lilljeborg. 

 ScantUnavinn Fishes. 



greatest thickness, measured across both opercula, was 

 55 mm. Length of the head 100 mm. Orbital dia- 

 meters, which are exactly alike, 42 mm. The depth 

 is thus about half the length; the thickness about ' ; 

 of the depth; the length of the head about V4 of the 

 length of the body, and the diameter of the orbit * 3. 

 Length of the lower jaw 62 % of the length of the 

 head, and somewhat over 16 % of the length of the 

 body. The length of the intermaxillary and maxillary 

 bones, from the tip of the snout to the upper posterior 

 corner of the latter bones, measures 58 % of the length 

 of the head. Interorbital region 27 % of the length ot 

 the head, and the least depth of the body (the least 

 depth of the tail) 24 %. For other particulars Ave may 

 refer to the figure. 



Both jaws are furnished with small, fine, pointed 

 teeth, which curve inwards and are set partly in re- 

 o^ular and partlv in irregular rows: in the mandible 



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