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BULLETIN OP THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Ostracion trigonum Linn6. 
Bird Key, Tortugas. 
Monacanthus hispidus Linnd. S 
From stomach of sharp-nosed shark. 
Tetrodon testudineus Linn6. ^ 
Lacosta Island, Charlotte Harbor. 
DESCEIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OP EEL (SPHAGEBRANCHUS KENDALLI). 
By Charles H. Gilbert. 
Body much more elongate than in selachops. Snout very slender, nearly terete, 
projecting beyond mouth for a distance equaling two-thirds length of gape. Eyeti| 
larger than usual in this genus, its diameter half length of snout, equaling inter- 
orbital width ; its anterior margin slightly behind front of lower jaw. Gape 4 in i 
head. Teeth in a single series in both jaws, acute, somewhat compressed, directed i; 
backwards. Teeth on head of vomer well developed, in a /^-shaped patch. No teeth ^ 
on shaft of vomer in the single type specimen ; this probably abnormal. [ 
Anterior nostrils in a short tube, well forward on lower side of snout ; posterior ' 
pair without tube, labial. 
Gill openings very small, their width about equaling diameter of eye, separated [I 
by a distance equaling half their width. The slits wholly transverse in direction, not ; 
diverging posteriorly as in selachops. 
Head much shorter than in selachops, the trunk somewhat longer; head 7| in i 
length anterior to vent ; body in tail. (In selachops, head less than 5 in body ; body 
1^ in tail.) 
Color nearly uniform olivaceous, lighter below. 
A single specimen 6.75 inches long was taken by the U. S. Fish Commission i 
schooner Grampus in 25 fathoms off the coast of Florida, latitude 25° 34' N., longitude ) 
82° 50' W. (station 5080). 
The species is named in honor of Mr. W. C. Kendall, naturalist of the Grampus at t| 
the time the fish was taken. 
SpiiAGKiiRANCnus Kendalli Gilbert (natural size). 
