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3067. ACHIRUS KLUNZINCERI (Steindaclmer). 



Head 3f in body; depth If. D. 65; A. 51; scales 37-80-42; eye 3| in 

 head; height of dorsal and anal 14-; caudal 1. Body moderately broad ; 

 eyes in the same vertical line ; interorhital as wide as length of eye ; angle 

 of mouth reaching a little past front of lower eye ; right under lip fringed ; 

 scales near upper profile of head enlarged, all scales strongly ctenoid ; 

 scales of eyed side without hair-like filaments. Pectoral of right side 

 only present, with about 6 rays; caudal round behind. Color brownish, 

 with 9 or 10 narrow blackish cross lines ; small rounded blackish spots on 

 the membranes of each of the vertical fins, much as in A. lineatus. (Stein- 

 dachner.) Pacific coast of tropical America; Panama to Guayaquil. 

 (Named for Dr. C. B. Klunzinger, Professor of Zoology at Stuttgart, 

 author of Memoirs on the Fishes of the Red Sea. ) 



Solea, klunzingeri, STEINDACHNEK, Zur Fische ties Cauca und der Fliisse bei Guayaquil, 



44, 1879, Guayaquil. 

 Achirus klunzingeri, JORDAN, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1885, 391; JORDAN & Goss, Eeview 



Flounders and Soles, 312, 1889. 



3068. ACHIRUS LINEATUS (Lhmams). 



Head 3 ; depth about 1|. D. 49 to 58 ; A. 38 to 44 ; scales 75 to 85. Pec- 

 toral fin of right side only developed, of 4 to 6 rays, considerably longer 

 than eye. Body with 8 to 10 narrow vertical dark bars, these sometimes 

 obsolete with age ; vertical fins all with round dark spots, these usually 

 especially distinct on the caudal fiu ; some of the scales of eyed side with 

 black, hair-like appendages; pectoral fin with 5 or 6 raysj4ibout 3 in head, 

 its length equal to that from outer edge of one eye to outer edge of another. 

 Color brown, the young spotted with whitish, the adult sometimes with 

 darker; body with about 8 narrow vertical cross streaks of blackish. 

 West Indies and Brazil, Florida Keys to Uruguay; common and variable. 



We have placed the Florida species, comifer and brachialis, in the syn- 

 onymy of lineatus. They differ from the latter only in the slightly smaller 

 number of the scales and fin rays. The following table shows our count 

 of a number of specimens from different localities : 



It is evident from this table that neither the fin rays nor the scales form 

 characters by which the subspecies can be absolutely distinguished. It 

 is evident also, from the examination of large series of specimens, that the 

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