Excerpt from A List of the Fishes of Hawaii, With Notes and Descriptions of New Species Pelagic. This diminutive lancelet, supposed to be distinguished by the absence of buccal cirri and by its pelagic habit, is now regarded as a larval form. The supposed genus is nearer Branchiostoma than Epigonichthys (asymmetron), the only other genus of this family as yet found in the open Pacific. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.