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DE8C KIPTIONS OF SIX NEW SPECIES OF FISHES FROM 



JAPAN. 



B}^ David Stakr Jordan and Alvin Skale, 



Of Stan fo I'll T^iiirfrslfi/, Californin. 



The species noted in the present paper were obtained in Japan in 

 190(1, by Professors Jordan and Snyder. 



The accompanying- drawings are the work of Mr. William S. 

 Atkinson. 



Family CYPKINID.E. 



PHOXINUS SEPTENTRIONALIS Jordan and Scale, new species. 



Head, o.75 in length (without caudal); depth, 4.50;- eye. ;^>.50 in 

 head; snout, 3.50; D. 9; A. 11; interorbital area, 3, wider than eye; 

 scales about 70. Teeth, 2. .5. 



Body oblong, moderately compressed; snout evenly rounded: depth 

 of cauc'al peduncle. 3 in head; mouth small, with thin lips; no barbels; 



Fig. 1. — PHOXINUS septentrioxai.is. 



maxillary scarceh" reaching- front of eye; gill-rakers short and Hat. 8 

 ori lower limb; lateral line extending abruptly downward and back- 

 ward to above middle of pectoral, ceasing- near the middle of body. 

 Origin of dorsal midway between front of eye and base of caudal, 

 the longest ray, 1.50 in head; ventrals inserted under front of dorsal; 

 l)ectoral equal to postorbital part of head; caudal forked, 1.20 in head. 



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