Scombrops oculatus

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Scombrops oculatus Identifier: oceanicichthyolo00good Title: Oceanic ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures Year: 1895 (1890s) Authors: Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896 Bean, Tarleton H. (Tarleton Hoffman), 1846-1916 Subjects: Fishes, Pelagic Marine animals -- Atlantic Ocean Publisher: Washington, Govt. Print. Off. Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Anus nearer the root ofthe ventrals than the origin of the anal. Scales moderate, deciduous, minutely ciliated. One species of the single genus of this family, Acropoma philippmense,Giinther, (Chal-lenger Report, Pari vi, >1: xxii, 15) was found near the Philippine Islands by the Challengerat a depth of 82 to 102 fathoms. Family SCOMBROPID/E. Scombropida, Gill, MS. Percoidea, with teeth on jaws, vomer and palatines, and long, strong canines in bothjaws, sometimes barbed. Bones of skull without deuticulations. Operculum with 2 weakspines. Scales rather small, very thin, smooth. (Gill.) SCOMBROPS, Temminck and Schlegel. Scombrops, Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, 118.—Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., I, 249.Latebrm, Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, II, 1858, 158. Scombropids having 2 long canine teeth in the upper jaw and a series of similar teeth inthe lower. First dorsal with 8 spines; anal with 3 spines. Bones of the skull withoutdeuticulations. Spines feeble. Lower jaw longest. Text Appearing After Image: Scombrops emu >dipteroides. This genus is represented in the Japanese Sea by a single species, 8. chilodipteroides,obtained by the Dutch naturalists and by the Challenger off Inosima, Japan, at a depth of345 fathoms. The Challenger specimen was 1G inches long. SCOMBROPS OCULATUS, Poey. Latebrus oculatim, Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, n, 1858, 168, PI. xm, Figs. 11,12 (jaws with teeth); PI, xiv,fig. 2 (outline).—GOnther, Challenger Report, xxn, 1887, 14. Body elongate, its height contained 4jj times in its total length; the head 3J. The eyeis very large, its diameter contained 3i times in the length of the head. The nostrils havevertical apertures, and are near the orbit. The length of the maxillary is four-fifths that ofthe diameter of the eye. The suprascapular bone projects. The premaxillary bears about12 canine teeth; there are 2 to 4 teeth longer than the others on its anterior portion on theinner edge. The teeth of the mandible are a little longer than those on the maxillary. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.