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Family, XXII CEPOLID.E, Bleeher. 



Branchiostegals six : pseudobranchiae present. Body elongated, low, and 

 compressed. Eyes large and lateral. No bony articulation between the infra- 

 orbital bones and the angle of the preopercle. Gill-openings wide, the membranes 

 being scarcely united under the throat. Teeth in the jaws of medium size and 

 pointed. A long spineless dorsal and anal fin, more or less continuous with the 

 caudal. Ventral thoracic, with one spine and five rays. Scales cycloid, small. 

 Pyloric appendages few. 



Genus I. Cepola, Linnceus. 



Acanthocepola, Bleeker. 



Head obtuse. Cleft of mouth, oblique, its gape wide. Preopercle more or less 

 armed. Palate edentulous. Air-bladder large. 



Bleeker instituted Genus Acanthocepola for those forms which have scales on 

 the head, the preopercle denticulated or spinate, and the body covered with 

 imbricate scales. 



Marine forms, which on the British coast vary in their rarity, mostly scarce 

 but in some years pretty numerous. 



Geographical distribution. From the seas of temperate Europe through those 

 of India to China and Japan. 



1. Cepola rubescens, Plate LXII. 



. Serpens rubescens, Rondel, xiv, c. 8, p. 410 ; Gesner, p. 863; Willughby, p. 118, 

 c. 13. Myrus alter, Aldrov. iii, c. 28, p. 367 ; Jonst. t. v, f . 5. Taenia rubra, 

 Will. p. 117 ; Bay, Syn. p. 71. Tcenia, no. 3, Artedi, Synon. p. 115. Bed band- 

 fish, Pennant, Brit. Zool. (Ed. 1812) iii, p. 285. 



Cepola rubescens, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 445 ; Bl. Schn. p. 241 ; Gmel. Linn, 

 p. 1187 ; Montagu, Trans. Linn. Soc. vii, p. 291, pi. xvii ; Bonn. Enc. Ich. p. 57, 

 pi. xxxiii, fig. 122 ; Shaw, Zool. iv, p. 190 ; Walb. Artedi, iii, p. 117 ; Brunn. Ich. 

 Mass. p. 28 ; Donovan, Brit. Fish, v, pi. cv ; Turton, Brit. Fauna, p. 94 ; Risso, 

 Ich. Nice, p. 154, and Europ. Merid. iii, p. 294 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fish. (Ed. 1) i, 

 p. 195, c. fig. (Ed. 2) i, p. 224 (Ed. 3) ii, p. 305 ; Flem. Brit. An. p. 204 ; 

 Thompson, M. N. H. (2) 1838, ii, p. 214, and Nat, Hist. Ireland, iv, p. 97 ; Couch, 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv, p. 76 ; Cuv. and Val. x, p. 388, pi. ccc ; Harvey, P. Z. S. 

 1838, p. 45 ; Swainson, Fishes, ii, p. 259 ; Jenyns, Man. p. 374 ; Guichen. Expl. 

 Alger. Poiss. p. 65 ; White, Catal. p. 54 ; Giinther, Catal. iii, p. 486 ; Steind. Ich. 

 Span. u. Port. 1868, p. 19 ; Canestr. Faun. Ital. p. 192 ; Giglioli, Pesc. Ital. p. 33 ; 

 Moreau, Poiss. France, ii, p. 552, c. fig. 



Cepola tcenia, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 445 ; Bl. v, p. 103, pi. clxx ; Bl. Schn. 

 p. 241 ; Shaw, Zool. iv, p. 187, pi. xxvi ; Lacep. ii, p. 526 ; Walb. Artedi, iii, 

 p. 117 ; Risso, Ich. Nice, p. 153. 



Cepola serpentiformis, Lacep. ii, p. 529. 



Cepola longicauda, Swain. Fishes, ii, p. 399. 



Ped snake-fish, Couch, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv, p. 76. 



Bed band-fish, Couch, Fish. Brit. Isles, ii, p. 262, pi. cxx. 



