Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2547 



rounded. Color very light brown; the margins of the dorsal and anal, 

 in their posterior portions, blackish. (Goode & Bean.) Gulf stream, 

 Lat. 40 N., in 396 fathoms, (maxillaris, pertaining to the upper jaw.) 

 Lotella maxillaris, BEAN, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1884, 241, Lat. 39 55' N., Long. 70 28' W. 



in 396 fathoms (Type, No. 29832. Coll. Fish Hawk) ; GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthv- 



ology, 368, 1896. 



987. PHYSICULUS, Kaup. 



Physiculus, KADP, Archiv fur Naturgesch. 1858, 88 (dalwigkii). 



Body elongate, covered with small scales; head entirely scaly; snout 

 broad, obtusely rounded, projecting beyond the mouth; mouth of mod- 

 erate size; chin with a barbel; jaws with bands of villiform teeth; vomer 

 and palatines toothless. Dorsals 2; anal fin single, not notched; ventral 

 fin with 5 rays, the outer ray filamentous; caudal rounded, slender, free; 

 branchiostegals 7. (Qvxtg, an ancient name of some fish living in the 

 Fucus, QVKO$, probably a species of Gobius,) 



a. Scales moderate, about 62 in a longitudinal series ; gill rakers few ; dorsal rays 10-49; 

 anal 54 ; ventral reaching fourth anal raj 5 . FULVUS, 2918. 



aa. Scales very small, about 100 in a longitudinal series. 



b. Gill rakers few, about 11 below arch; head 4 in length; depth 5; ventrals fila- 

 mentous at tip, as long as head, reaching tenth ray of anal. 



NEMATOPUS, 2919. 



bb. Gill rakers undescribed, probably few ; head 4 in length ; depth 5 ; ventrals 



shorter than head, reaching front of anal. KAUPI, 2920. 



bbb. Gill rakers very numerous, 7+18; head 3J in length; depth 4|; ventrals 



reaching seventh anal ray. RASTBELLIGER, 2921. 



2918. PHYSICULUS FULVUS, Bean. 



Head about 4; depth 4$. D. 10-49; A. 54; V.7; scales 6-61 to 62-16. 

 Head broad and depressed; snout short; eye 3 in head; the length of the 

 upper jaw 2 in head, about equal to space between ventrals and anal 

 origin ; maxillary not quite reaching vertical through hind margin of eye ; 

 barbel 6 in head. Teeth in narrow bands in jaw; no outer series of 

 enlarged teeth, but a few in the middle of the bands in each jaw are 

 slightly larger than the others ; all of the teeth, however, inconspicuous ; 

 vomer and palate smooth. Vent situated about under third ray of first 

 dorsal; distance of first dorsal from tip of snout equaling 3 times length of 

 its base, its longest ray twice length of snout, and slightly exceeding length 

 of longest of second dorsal ; length of second dorsal base 3 times length 

 of pectoral, which is nearly 5-J- times in total without caudal. Origin of 

 anal about in a vertical let fall from base of fifth ray of first dorsal; dis- 

 tance of ventral from tip of snout about 5 times in body. Tip of ven- 

 tral when extended backward reaching base of fourth anal ray ; length 

 of middle caudal ray 3 in head. Lateral line very indistinct, situated 

 rather high, following pretty closely the contour of back. Gill rakers 

 moderately short and not numerous. General color a light yellowish 

 brown ; under surface of head, the abdomen, margins of dorsal and anal 

 fins, lips, and axil of pectoral very dark brown ; a dark brown blotch on 

 the suboperculum; inside of mouth and gill membranes white. (Bean.) 



