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Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: United States National Museum Smithsonian Institution United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, (etc.) for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt Print. Off.
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genus espe-cially distinguishable by the greatly elongated pectorals. (o-xiotos , split, or divided, with reference to the dorsals + Perca.) 62 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM SCHISTOPERCA MACROBRACHIUM, new species Figure 9 Depth 3y2; head 3, width 2. Snout 5% in head measured fromsnout tip; eye 3%, greater than snout, subequal with interorbital,snout tip level with middle of eye; maxillary reaches below first thirdin eye, expansion 2, length 3 in head from snout tip; lips rather broad,fleshy, smooth; mouth well inclined, lower jaw well protruding infront; teeth in jaws barely perceptible, very minute, feeble, incon-spicuous ; interorbital oy5 in head measured from snout tip, moderate,convex; suborbital very narrow, ensheaths maxillary anteriorly; pre-opercle with hind edge furnished with row of few spinules. Loweredge of gill opening with 3 short backwardly curved spines. Gillopening large, extends forward below until opposite eye. Gill rakers10+20, slender, lanceolate.
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Figure 9.—Schistoperca macrobrachium, new species: Paratype (U.S.N.M No. 99531). Scales 28 + 2 in lateral line; 3 above to second dorsal origin, 7 belowto anal origin, 14 predorsal forward nearly to front of snout tip.Head well scaled, 2 rows on cheek. Vertical fins well covered withsmall scales over basal portions. Prepectoral region with scalessmaller than on body and pectoral fins covered with small scalesbasally. Flap between ventrals formed of 2 large scales. D. VIII—I, 8, i, fourth spine 2y8 in total head length, firstbranched ray 2; A. Ill, 7, i, third spine 2%0? first branched ray 1%;caudal 1%0, moderately forked, with broad pointed lobes and fulcraseries of distinct graduated spines; least depth of caudal peduncle NEW PHILIPPINE FISHES—FOWLER 63 2%; pectoral greatly extended, lower median rays longest, fin 2y10in fish without caudal, rays 12; ventral rays I, 5, fin 2 in total headlength. Color in alcohol largely uniform pale brownish, little paler below.Iris slate. Hind

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