 | Sir Robert Lambert Playfair, Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther - 1866 - 208 pages
...vi. p. 314. D. 12. A. 18. V. 6. L. lat. 32. L. transv. 9. The height of the body is contained four times in the total length (without caudal), the length of the head thrice and a fourth. Head rather elongate, much depressed anteriorly, the snout being somewhat longer than... | |
 | Zoological Society of London - 1868 - 766 pages
...9-10. L. lat. 51. L. transv. ~^-. The height of the body is contained twice and two-thirds or thrice in the total length (without caudal), the length of the head thrice and one-half. Upper profile slightly concave above the occiput. Snout as long as the diameter of the... | |
 | Julius Lucius Brenchley, Curaçoa (Steam frigate) - 1873 - 652 pages
...Allied to Scolopais ghanam. D. LO. AAL lat. 44. L. trans. ^. The height of the body is contained thrice in the total length (without caudal), the length of the head thrice and a third : the diameter of the eye is one-third of the length of the head, and a little more than... | |
 | Thomas Hale Streets - 1877 - 176 pages
...A. f. L. lat. 45-47. Teeth on the vomer and palatine bones ; those on the latter in a narrow band. Height of the body is contained 3£ times in the total length, and the length of the head 3 times in the same. Interorbital space one-half the diameter of the eye... | |
 | Linnean Society of New South Wales - 1884 - 684 pages
...533. Lower Burdekin ; salt water. 20. CARANX COMPRESSUS. n. sp. D. 7, 1/21 ; A. 2, 1/21. L. arm. 45. The height of the body is contained 3| times in the total length. Body very compressed, the back from the dorsal fin to the snout forming a very sharp, narrow ridge.... | |
 | Zoological Society of London - 1890 - 892 pages
...than broad, a little broader than deep ; snout not prominent. The depth of the body contained five times in the total length (without caudal), the length of the head thrice and two thirds. Barbels slender and short, the maxillary reaching the opercle. Dorsal spine serrated... | |
 | Mary Henrietta Kingsley - 1897 - 808 pages
...lower and ascends slightly towards the origin of the dorsal. Eye one-fifth of the length of the head. The height of the body is contained 3! times in the total length (without caudal), the length of the head 5i times. Caudal peduncle extremely slender, longer than the head (measured from the last... | |
 | 1896 - 552 pages
...lower and ascends slightly towards the origin of the dorsal. Eye one fifth of the length of the head. The height of the body is contained 3| times in the total length (without caudal), the length of the head 5£ times. Caudal peduncle extremely slender, longer than the head (measured from the last... | |
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The height of the body is contained 3! times in the total length (without caudal), the length of the head 5i times. 
