WESTERN ATLANTIC PERCOPHIDID FISHES — GINSBURG 639 



Specimens examined: Tortugas, collected by Longley (USNM 

 92040) , Collected by the Oregon and the Albatross in 65-280 fathoms 

 off the following locaUties: Cape San Bias, Fla. (USNM 45744, 45975, 

 45973, 157727). Pensacola, Fla. (USNM 157726). Mississippi 

 Delta (USNM 44233, 157728-30) . Corpus Christi Pass, Tex. (USNM 

 157731-2). The preceding 12 lots comprise 50 specimens 81-220 

 mm. in standard length, approximately 95-260 mm. The foregoing 

 account of the species is based chiefly on these specimens from southern 

 Florida and the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The single 

 small specimen (26007) on which the species was originally based had 

 been taken farther north as follows: Fish Hawk Sta. 871, lat. 40°02'54'' 

 N., long. 70°23'40" W., off Long Island, N. Y., 115 fathoms, Sept. 4, 

 1880. This holotype, about 43.5 mm. in standard length, the caudal 

 damaged, is now in bad condition and altogether faded. The number 

 of pectoral rays and scales are not definitely determinable. Other 

 counts are as follows: DVI; 17. A 18. GR5+15. Judged by 

 these determinable counts it is apparently conspecific with the 50 

 southern specimens listed above; but it is of com^se necessary to 

 examine a well preserved sample from the type locality to be certain 

 of this identification. 



Comparison: This species averages the highest fin ray and scale 

 counts. It is nearest anatirostris and the differences between them are 

 discussed under that species (p. 637). 



References 



Gilbert, Charles Henry 



1905. The deep-sea fishes of the Hawaiian Islands, in Jordan and Evermann, 

 The aquatic resources of the Hawaiian Islands. Bull. U. S. Fish 

 Comm., vol. 23, pt. 2, pp. 575-713-fxi, figs. 230-286, pis. 66-106. 

 Jordan, David Starr 



1923. A classification of fishes, including families and genera as far as known. 

 Stanford Univ. Publ. (Biol. Sci.), vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 79-243 + x. 

 Miranda Ribeiro, Alipio de 



1915. Peixes. In Fauna Brasiliense (Arch. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro), 



vol. 17, Percophidae. 

 1918. Peixes. In Fauna Brasiliense (Arch. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro), 

 vol. 21, 227 pp. [BibHography for vol. 17, ibid., omitted in that 

 volume.] 

 Regan, C. Tate 



1913, The classification of percoid fishes. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, 

 vol. 12, pp. 111-145. 



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