Identifier: transactionso21188384vass (find matches)
Title: Transactions of Vassar Brothers Institute, and its Scientific Section
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Vassar Brothers' Institute
Subjects: Vassar Brothers' Institute Science
Publisher: Poughkeepsie, N.Y. : Vassar Brothers Institute
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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gth from snout to the end of caudal fin (straight line), 10 feet Length from snout to the pectoral fins (straight line) 30 inches Length from snout to the ventral fins 67J^ inches Length from snout to the anal fins 86 inches Length from snout to the first dorsal fin 44 inches Length from snout to the second dorsal fin 82^2 inches Length from snout to the caudal fin 98 inches Length of pectorals, at base 8 inches Length of first dorsal, at base 12 inches Length of second dorsal, at base 1% inches inchesinchesinchesinches Length of anal, at base 1% Circumference, anterior to branchial openings 56 Circumference, posterior to branchial openings 58 Circumference, posterior to pectorals 58 Circumference, anterior to first dorsal 53 inches Circumference, posterior to first dorsal 48 inches Circumference, anterior to ventrals 42 inches Circumference, posterior to ventrals 33 inches Circumference, anterior to anal 22 inches Circumference, of caudal peduncle anterior to caudal fins, 12 inches o
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W. G. STEVENSON. 85 COLOR. The color is drab or ashy-gray, lighter on the abdo-men ; darker or leaden-gray towards the tail and on theborders of the pectoral and caudal fins. HEAD AND BODY. The head is short, with snout three inches above themouth, projecting four and three-quarter inches beyondthe jaws. The body is stout, tapering gradually fromthe pectorals to the tail. The abdomen is somewhatpendant anterior to the ventrals. IMBRICATED SCALES. When rubbed in a forward direction the surface feelslike minute sharp points or barbules, which, under a lens,are seen to be calcified, imbricated papillae or shagreen,about one one-hundred-twentieth of an inch in diame-ter, retrorse, and arranged in irregular rows. These pa-pillae have their free ends serrated, which give to eachpapilla three unequal teeth-like points, of which themiddle one is generally the longest and sharpest. LATERAL LINES AND MUCLFEROUS OPENINGS. The lateral lines of the two sides, united by a trans-verse line nine andtransactionso21188384vass

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