Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2589 



long, sharp, depressed, triangular, the lower surface more nearly parallel 

 with the axis of body than in M. bairdii; lateral ridges more pronounced, 

 continued in a straight line under eye and upon preopercle; strong hori- 

 zontal ridges running from supraorbital margins to gill openings, parallel 

 with subocular ridges; nostrils immediately in front of orbit; barbel very 

 short. Teeth small, conical, somewhat recurved, arranged in villiform 

 bands. Origin of first dorsal to snout 4-| times its base, its distance from 

 anterior margin of orbit much less than length of head; first spine very 

 short, hardly perceptible above the skin; second spine about 2 in head, 

 slender and unarmed, when laid back its tip reaching to or beyond origin 

 of second dorsal, the spines decreasing in length very gradually, the 

 sixth being nearly as long as second, so that the fin is not so triangular as 

 in M. bairdii; second dorsal beginning in a perpendicular from seventh 

 anal ray; anal much higher than in M. bairdii, nearly equal to inter- 

 orbital width, its origin under eighteenth scale of lateral line, its longest 

 rays as long as interorbital width ; distance of pectoral from snout equal- 

 ing twice its own length, which about equals longest dorsal spine; origin 

 of pectoral below middle of depth of body and below level of middle of 

 orbit, its tip not reaching origin of anal; insertion of ventrals behind 

 pectoral, slightly in advance of first dorsal, its distance from snout greater 

 than twice its length, the long filament not reaching anal. Color silvery 

 gray. Length 250 mm. This species is extremely close to the common 

 Mediterranean species, C. ccclornynchus (Risso), but the spines on the scales 

 are a little larger. West Indies, Gulf of Mexico, and in the Gulf Stream 

 in deep water; abundant; taken at many stations by the Albatross, the 

 Blake, the Fisli HawJc, and the Challenger, in 115 to 464 fathoms, (car- 

 minatus, from carmen, a wool card.) 



Macrurus carminatus, GOODE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., in, 1880, 346 and 475, Gulf Stream off 

 Rhode Island, Lat. 40 02' 54" N., Long. 70 23' 40", at Fish Hawk Station 871, in 115 

 fathoms (Type, No. 26007) ; GOODE & BEAN, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., x, No. 5, 196, 1883. 



Macrurus (Goelorhynchus) carminatus, GUNTHER, Challenger Report, Deep-Sea Fishes, 

 xxn, 129, pi. 5, fig. 13, 1887. 



Coelorhynchus carminatus, GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 398, fig. 336, 1896. 



2966. CffiLORHYNCHUS CARIBB^US (Goode & Bean). 



Head 4* in total length; depth 6* in total length. 1 D. II, 8; 2 D. at 

 least 110; A. 110+ ; scales 6-124-15 or 16. Body normal in shape; scales 

 moderate, strong, densely covered with minute spines, without enlarged 

 median keel ; interorbital area flat, its greatest width about 5 times in 

 length of head; postorbital portion of head about 3 in head, and just as 

 long as eye, which is oval, and If as long as its vertical diameter. Snout 

 long, thin, diaphanous, with acuminate point, its general form resembling 

 that of C. carminatus. The nostrils close to the orbit, the posterior one 

 much the larger. Teeth in each jaw in villiform bands, minute. Barbel 

 slender and short, its length i that of eye. Maxillary extending to verti- 

 cal through middle of pupil; upper jaw about 3 in head; mandible 2|; 

 intermaxillary short. Outer series of teeth on intermaxillary and mandi- 

 ble not enlarged, the teeth not becoming uniserial. Gill membranes nar- 

 rowly attached to the isthmus ; gill rakers minute, tubercular, about 10 on 



