Published December 31, 1883 | Version v1
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Reports on the results of dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, on the east coast of the United States, during the summer of 1880, by the U. S. coast survey steamer Blake, Commander J. R. Bartlett, U. S. N., commanding.

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CHALINURA, new genus.

Scales cycloid, fluted longitudinally with slightly radiating s' ire. Snout long, broad, truncate, not much produced. Mouth lateral, subterminal, very large. Head without prominent ridges save the subocular ones, and those upon the snout. The suborbital ridge is not joined to the angle of the preoperculum. Teeth in the upper jaw in a villiform band, with those in the outer series much enlarged; those in lower jaw uniserial, large. No teeth on vomer or palatines. Pseudobranchiae present, but small. Gill-rakers spiny, depressible, stout, in double series on the anterior arch. Branchiostegal membrane apparently free from the isthmus. Ventrals below the pectorals. Barbel present.

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Published as part of Goode, G. B. & Bean, T. H., 1883, Reports on the results of dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, on the east coast of the United States, during the summer of 1880, by the U. S. coast survey steamer " Blake, " Commander J. R. Bartlett, U. S. N., commanding., pp. 183-226 in Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 10 (5) on page 198, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.28095

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