A COLLECTION OF FISHES FROM TALARA, 

 PERU 



By SAMUEL F. HILDEBRAND i and OTIS BARTON = 



An unusually interesting collection of fishes was obtained at Talara, 

 Peru, from January to April, 1946, by the junior author. Two new 

 species from this collection have already been described (Barton, 

 1947), and descriptions of seven others are included in these pages. 

 In addition to the apparently new forms, three species previously not 

 reported from Peru are included. Descriptions of these species also 

 are offered herein, as the present paper is to serve as a supplement 

 to "A Descriptive Catalog of the Shore Fishes of Peru" (Hilde- 

 brand, 1946). Most of the specimens were obtained from fishermen 

 who fished on the banks west of Talara, at depths down to 250 feet. 

 The carefully executed drawings of the new species herein described 

 were made by Mrs. Ann S. Green of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife 

 Service, The paper was prepared in the Division of Fishes, United 

 States National Museum. 



Family ALBULIDAE : Ladyfishes; Bonefishes 



Body elongate, little compressed ; head rather low, flat above ; snout 

 conic, projecting far in advance of lower jaw; mouth moderately 

 small, nearly horizontal; maxillary reaching nearly to front of eye 

 or below it, never beyond eye ; premaxillaries not protractile ; no gular 

 plate; teeth all small, present in bands on jaws, vomer, palatines, 

 pterygoids, basibranchials, and sphenoid; branchiostegals 13 or 14; 

 gill membranes separate and free from the isthmus; gill rakers 

 very short, stout, tubercular in large examples ; lateral line straight ; 

 scales rather small, with membranous borders, not extending on head, 

 a modified row on back in front of dorsal fin; dorsal fin beginning 

 in advance of ventral fins; caudal fin forked; anal fin very small, 

 far behind dorsal; ventral and pectoral fins similar, each with an 

 axillary scale. 



1 Ichthyologist, United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Dr. Hiklebrand 

 died on March 16, 1949, before this paper went to press. 

 - Explorer. 



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