Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 881 



with aii external series of sharp teeth ; about 2 large compressed canines 

 on each side in front ; one on each side near tip of low jaw ; lower teeth 

 otherwise smaller. Scales small, caducous. Upper lateral line very high, 

 parallel with Lack ; lower joining it behind the shoulder, thence curving 

 downward, following outline of belly. Intestinal canal short. Bluish, 

 darker above, silvery below. (Poey.) Two specimens known, one taken 

 near Havana in 1853, 3 feet long, the other obtained by the Albatross in 

 1885. (Magistral-is, master; in Spanish, Domine; in reference to its resem- 

 blance to the scholar, Escolar, Ruvettus pretlosm.) 



Epiunula magixtrulia, POEY, Memorias, i, 369, 1851, Havana; GUNTHEH, Cat., n, 349, 1860; GOODE 

 & BEAN, Oceanic Ichtbyol., 198, 1895, 



399. NEALOTUS, Johnson. 



Nealotus, JOHNSON, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lood., 1865, 434, (tripes). 



Body elongate, much compressed, incompletely covered with delicate 

 scales. Cleft of mouth deep. Small teeth in jaws and on palatine bones ; 

 none on vomer. First dorsal (composed of about 20 spines) continuous, 

 extending to the second ; finlets behind dorsal and anal ; a dagger-shaped 

 spine behind vent. No keel on tail. Caudal fin well developed. Ven- 

 trals reduced to a spine each. Seven branchiostegals. Deep seas ; one 

 species known, (vedhuroc;, newly caught.) 



1270. NEALOTUS TRIPES, Johnson. 



Head 4 ; depth 9 ; eye 5 ; snout 3. D. XXI, 19 + II ; A. 18, III ; P. 13 ; 

 V. 1. Body very elongate, with a few large, deciduous, simple scales of 

 delicate structure here and there upon its surface. Head flattened above, 

 concave in interorbital region, with 4 low ridges, the inner pair of which 

 inclose an elongate, diamond-shaped space; lower jaw longest. Eye round, 

 lateral ; opercle with 2 obtuse projections behind, separated by a notch. 

 Spinous dorsal inserted in front of root of pectoral, its height slightly 

 greater than half that of body ; its length less than half that of body, 

 placed in a groove ; the second dorsal placed close behind first, not so 

 high and less than half as long. Pectoral origin under angle of opercle, 

 its length equal to that of second dorsal fin. Spines representing ventrals 

 inserted close together under hinder part of roots of pectorals, their length 

 about i height of body. These spines are longitudinally grooved, and each 

 appears to consist of 2 or 3 spines coalesced together. Vent very slightly 

 postmedian ; a flat, dagger-shaped spine, longitudinally grooved, half as 

 long as height of body, inserted close behind vent. Anal fin inserted 

 behind this spine at a distance about equal to its length, and opposite 

 to, but rather shorter than second dorsal. Caudal fin deeply furcate. 

 Lateral line descends obliquely from above opercle to middle of length of 

 fish, and then continues with a gentler obliquity along posterior part of 

 body to tail, where it is inserted at 1 distance from ventral to dorsal out- 

 line. (Goode & Bean.) Two specimens known, one from Madeira, the 

 other taken by the Challenger between the Bahamas and Bermudas, (tripes, 

 3-footed, the 2 ventral spines and the anal spine forming a tripod.) 

 Nealotus tripes, JOHNSON, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, 434, Madeira, 

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