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Red-mouth Grunt ; 

 Tom Tate; 



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"BATHYSTOMA RIMATOR." 



"Head 2f ; depth 2§ ; eye rather large, 

 4^ in head; interorbital space convex, 3^ in 

 head ; preorbital low, its least breadth 8 in head. 

 Gill rakers small, about 11 + 16. D. XIII, 15; A. Ill, 8; scales 

 8-51-13. Body rather elongate but not fusiform, the back some- 

 what elevated, the profile straight or slightly convex from tip of snout 

 to behind eye, where it becomes gradually more convex ; snout short, 

 rather pointed, about 3 in head. Mouth large, the maxillary reaching 

 middle of pupil, its length 2 in head. Teeth not very strong, those 

 of the outer series a little enlarged, the antrores posterior teeth rather 

 large. Scales rather small, those above lateral line regularly arranged 

 in oblique series, the series below nearly horizontal. Dorsal spines 

 slender and high, the fourth 2 to 2^ in head ; upper caudal lobe \}i 

 in head ; longest anal rays 3 in head, their tips not reaching tips of 

 last rays when depressed ; second anal spine but little longer than 

 third, 2f in head, the two more nearly equal than usual in this genus, 

 their tips, when depressed, reaching middle of last ray ; ventrals 1^ 

 in head ; pectorals 1^, their tips not reaching past tips of ventrals. 

 Frontal foramina as in other species of the subgenus Bathystoma, long 

 divided slits in front of the supraoccipital crest. Color, in life, silvery 

 white, slightly bluish above, with iridescent reflections ; edges of 

 scales of body light yellow, these forming continuous light yellow 

 lines, those below lateral line horizontal, those above very oblique ; 



