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The temptation to place this form as a variety of C. xanthostigma Gilb. is 
great, though that species is said to have fewer rays in the pectorals, fewer 
scales, and no canines. 
Station. Latitude. Longitude. Depth. Temperature, Bottom. 
3368 52 32045 Ni. 86° 54’ 30” W. 66 fathoms 58.4° F. Rocky. 
Platophrys leopardinus. 
Rhomboidichthys leopardinus Giint., 1862, Cat., IV., 434. 
DS S— 92 Ae O70 Oe i Orr Chis Elh.86=92 5° Ltr: 
35-37 + 40-44. 
Sinistral, much compressed, greatest depth contained twice to two and 
one sixth times in the total length. Head deeper than long; length four 
and three fifths times in the total; forehead concave about the nostril, in 
the profile and between the eyes. Interorbital space varying in width from 
that of the eye with half of the upper eye above the lower to twice as wide 
with little or none of the upper eye directly above the lower; slightly con- 
cave, with a low ridge in a strip of naked skin from the forward portion of 
one eye to that of the other. Snout shorter than the eye, blunt, with a 
more or less prominent bony, in cases spine-like, process on the left side. 
Mouth short, curved, cleft reaching below the anterior border of the eye. 
Teeth small, in two or more series, outer on the maxille little larger. Eyes 
large, two sevenths as long as the head, one and one half times the length 
of the snout. A tubular nostril forward of the orbital ridge above the 
lower orbit. Gill rakers short, small, tubercular, seven plus eight. Lateral 
line with an abrupt curve above the base of the pectoral as long as the 
orbit and as high as the eye. 
Scales small, ctenoid on the left side, cycloid on the right, eighty-two 
to eighty-five in a series from the head to the bases of the caudal rays. 
Dorsal origin on the right side near the nostrils; anal origin slightly 
forward of a vertical from the hinder margin of the operculum ; dorsal little 
deeper than anal; anteriorly on both fins the rays protrude beyond the 
membrane, forming a fringe. Pectoral of the left side larger, longer ; that 
of the right side with fewer rays and shorter. Left ventral more than twice 
as long as the right and extending forward to the isthmus ; right ventral 
narrow, opposed to the hinder part of the left. 
Grayish brown, with numerous whitish spots on body and fins. Some of 
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