Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2G33 



others, the middle rays a little longer than longest of anal, which are 

 about | head; caudal as long as head; anal spine obsolete; ventrals small; 

 pectoral 1| in head. Head 4 ; depth 2|. D. 77 ; A. 63 ; scales 90. Length 

 about 14 inches. (oUongus, oblong.) 



Pleuronectes oblongus, MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc., T, 1815, 391, New York. - 

 Platessa quadrocellata, STOREE, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 1847, 242 ; STOKEB, Hist. Fish. 



Mass., 397, pi. 31, fig. 3, Provincetown. 



Chcenopsetta oblonga, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Scl. Phila. 1864, 218. 

 Paralichthys oblongus, GOODE, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 472 ; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 



824, 1883 ; JORDAN & Goss, Review Flounders and Soles, 249, pi. 8, 1889 ; GOODE & BEAN, 



Oceanic Ichthyology, 436, 1896. 



1025. RAMULARIA, Jordan & Evermaun. 

 Ramularia, JORDAN & EVERMANN, new genus (dendriticus) . 



This genus is close to Ancylopsetta, differing mainly in the structure of 

 the lateral line, the tubes of which are borne by series of smaller, con- 

 cealed cycloid scales, the free edges of which are notched to the opening 

 of the pore; these scales are concealed in the skin, and from the pores pro- 

 ceed backward membranaceous tubes which ramify over the bases of con- 

 tiguous scales. Dorsal scarcely elevated in front; left ventral much pro- 

 duced. Body broad ovate, sinistral, with very rough scales. Gill rakers 

 few, very broad, (ramulus, a branchlet, from the tubes of the lateral line.) 



3001. RAMULARIA DENDRITICA (Gilbert). 



Head 3| in length; depth If. D. 84; A. 63; scales 100; 36 scales in a 

 series upward and backward from lateral line. Body very broad, its depth 

 If in length, the two outlines equally curved ; profile not very strongly 

 angulated in front of upper eye. Lower eye slightly in advance of upper; 

 interorbital space a rather broad, convex, scaly ridge, about upper eye, 

 which is contained about 5 times in head and is equal to snout. A blunt 

 spine on snout on head of maxillary. Nostril openings very broad, with- 

 out tube, the anterior with a narrow flap. Mouth moderate, very oblique, 

 the gape curved, the maxillary reaching slightly beyond vertical from 

 middle of lower eye, 3 in head. Teeth in a single, rather close-set series 

 in each jaw, strong, conical, directed very obliquely inward, becoming 

 gradually larger toward front of jaw, but not canine-like. Gill rakers 

 very short, barely movable, as broad as long, strongly toothed, 6 on anterior 

 limb. Dorsal beginning over middle of upper eye, the anterior rays partly 

 free toward tips, but little, if any, elevated above those that follow, the 

 first 2f in head; dorsal highest in its posterior third, the longest ray 2| in 

 head; anal similar, the rays of posterior third of each fin slightly forked 

 at tip; caudal peduncle deep and short, its depth about % head, its length 

 ^ its depth ; caudal rounded, almost double truncate ; ventrais with nar- 

 row bases, the left one slightly in advance of the right; fin greatly pro- 

 duced, reaching far beyond front of anal, a trifle shorter than head; left 

 pectoral If in head. Scales very strongly ctenoid, the edge spinous, the 

 entire exposed portion rough ; width of anterior arch of lateral line 3^ in 

 straight portion ; tubes of lateral line borne by a series of smaller con- 

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