Identifier: annualreportofbo1908smitfo (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents United States National Museum. Report of the U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution. Archives Discoveries in science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Wi% M Pig. 39.—Dibranvhus uthinUvus. After Goodc Jind Bean. cle, and the pectoral members are less free and divergent from thebody than in other Ogcocephalids. Another remarkable character-istic is the vei-y backward position of the branchial apertures withinthe axilla? of the pectoral members, so that they are much nearer to ANGLER FISHES GILL, 597 the caudal fin than to the ridges of the head. The only speciesknown is the Coelophrys hrevicaudata^ of which a single specimen was
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Fig. 40.—A peculiar Maltheid found off Sumatra at a depth of 1,024 meters (Coslophryshrevicaudata. Views from above (a) and from tlie side (6). After Brauer. obtained in the Indian Ocean from a depth of about 500 fathoms(1,024 meters). PART II. THE HABITS OF TYPICAL ANTENNARIIDS. Very little is knowm of the habits of most of the Pediculates, butconsiderable has been ascertained of the peculiar characteristics ofspecies of the best-known genera of the family of Antennariids.This has been collected here from many sources. ANTENNARIUS. The genus Antennarius has the body covered with prickles orminute si^inules, the mouth is subvertical, the caudal peduncle free,the wrists and pectoral fins wide, the pectorals entire, the ventralsshort, the dorsal fin (12) moderate and less than half as long as thebody, the third dorsal spine more or less concealed below the skin,and the anal oblong and provided with seven or eight rays. Such are the characters which serve to distinguish the genus fromP

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