| Science - 1867 - 558 pages
...length of the head, and is two-ninths of the total (without caudal) ; the length of the head is one-half the distance between the snout and the vertical from the origin of the dorsal fin. Snout very obtuse, scarcely longer than the diameter of the eye, which is threefourths of the width... | |
| George Strong Nares - Arctic regions - 1878 - 450 pages
...elongate ; head small, two-ninths or nearly one-fifth of the total length (without caudal), scarcely more than one-half of the distance between the snout...the vertical from the origin of the dorsal fin. The snout is remarkably obtuse ; the maxillary varies in length : in males of the same size it sometimes... | |
| George Strong Nares - Arctic regions - 1878 - 462 pages
...length, without caudal. The length of the head is one-fourth or two-ninths of the same length, and nearly one-half of the distance between the snout and the vertical from the origin of the dorsal fin. The snout is obtuse, the forehead flat ; and the maxillary extends in the male to the vertical from the... | |
| George Strong Nares - Arctic regions - 1878 - 426 pages
...elongate ; head small, two-ninths or nearly one-fifth of the total length (without caudal), scarcely more than one-half of the distance between the snout...the vertical from the origin of the dorsal fin. The snout is remarkably obtuse ; the maxillary varies in length : in males of the same size it sometimes... | |
| Zoological Society of London - Zoology - 1877 - 1042 pages
...small, two ninths or nearly one fifth of the total length (without caudal), scarcely more than one half of the distance between the snout and the vertical from the origin of the dorsal fin. The snout is remarkably obtuse; the maxillary varies in length : in males of the same size it sometimes... | |
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