This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...ventrals uniform yellowish. Known from 1 specimen 13 inches long from the mouth of the Amur River. (Steindachner.) Also recorded by Dr. Schmidt from Peter the Great Bay, Vladivostok. 19. MEGALOCOTTUS GiIl. Megalocottus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, p. 166 (platijcephalus). This genus includes large sculpins, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...ventrals uniform yellowish. Known from 1 specimen 13 inches long from the mouth of the Amur River. (Steindachner.) Also recorded by Dr. Schmidt from Peter the Great Bay, Vladivostok. 19. MEGALOCOTTUS GiIl. Megalocottus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, p. 166 (platijcephalus). This genus includes large sculpins, with broad, flat heads, differing from Myoxocephalus chiefly in the sharp projecting lower jaw; the preopercle has 3 spines, the upper short and straight, the lowermost turned downward; dentation as in Myoxocephalus/ suprascapula with 2 spinous projections; top of head warty; sides with rounded tubercles in the adult; lateral line of separated pores; a large pore behind last gill. North Pacific. (/xeyaXos great; Cottus.) 28. MEGALOCOTTUS PLATYCEPHALUS (Pallas). Cottus platycephahts Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., III, 1811, p. 135; Kamchatka, after Steller.--Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1829, p. 177. Cottus iaeniopieru s Kner, Sitzber Ak. Wiss. Wien, LVIII, 1S68, p. 18, pl. xiv, fig. 10; Decastris Bay, near mouth of Amur River. (No. 5574, Mus. Wien.) Megalocottus platycephalus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, p. 166.--Jordan and Gilbert, Rept. U. S. Fur Seal Comm., IlI, 1898, p. 469.--Jordan and Evermann, Fishes N. M. Amer., II, 1898, p. 1987, fig. 725, St. Michael.--Schmidt, Faune Mer, Japon, 1903, p. 15; Japan Sea, Okhotsk Sea. Head 3 in length, D. VIII--13; A. 12; V. I, 3; P. 16 or 17; lateral line 40. Lower jaw somewhat longer than upper; eye 5 in head, as long as snout; nasal spines distinct; orbital rim moderately prominent; a low ridge behind it toward the occiput, without spines or. points. Top of head between these ridges forming a quadrangular depression, as broad as the eye in front, but narrower behind. Top o...
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