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Ventrals large, thoracic, I, 5, close together in advance of base 
of pectoral, joined to belly by a membrane which incloses a 
groove. No axillary process and spine strong. 
Carnivorous fishes of tropical seas, chiefly in deep water and 
mostly rose-colored in life. One species straying to our shores. 
Genus PSEUDOPRIACANTHUS Bleeker. 
The Rough Catalufas. 
Pseudopriacanthus altus (Gill). 
IBA ANGI) 
Head" 2Y,-" depth 14/-5 De xr: Alelil to; -seales 47 aime 
lateral series to base of caudal, 3 more on latter; about 35 pores 
in lateral line; snout 334 in head measured from tip of upper 
jaw; eye 2'/,); maxillary 134; interorbital space 374; seventh 
dorsal spine 114; third dorsal ray 134; third anal ray 1%; 
least depth of caudal peduncle 3; pectoral 134; ventral spine 
134. Body deep, compressed, nearly ellipsoid. Caudal peduncle 
small, about as deep as long, compressed. Head deep, strongly 
compressed, upper profile steep and nearly straight. Snout short, 
broad. Eye large, circular. Mouth large, obliquely vertical, and 
mandible projecting. Maxillary oblique, reaching.middle of orbit 
and greatest expansion about half of same. Teeth in jaws villi- 
form, outer series enlarged, and those of larger size on mandible 
larger than outer series above. Subopercle, preopercle, opercle 
and preorbital with serrate edges. ‘Two small spines at angle of 
preopercle and one on opercle. Gill-rakers g + 18, slender and 
as long as filaments. Head and body covered with rough scales, 
smaller on former and thick on maxillary. Lateral line strongly 
arched toward base of fifth dorsal spine, then sloping down to 
caudal peduncle. Dorsal begins close behind posterior margin of 
orbit, and posterior spines highest. Anal spines long and subequal. 
Pectoral rounded, reaching anal. Ventral reaching base of third 
anal spine. Color faded brownish, perhaps bright red in life. 
Ventrals blackish on outer portions. Length nearly 3 inches. At- 
lantic City. 
