152 ORDER ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



The natatory bladder is remarkable for its ramified 

 appendages, which abound on either side. 



It is a good fish, but become rather rare on our 

 coasts of the ocean ! . 



The Otolithi. (Otolithus, Cuv.,) 



Have, like the sciasna, the bones of the anal fin weak, 

 and want barbels ; but some of their teeth terminate 

 in elongated hooks, or are of the canine form. Their 

 natatory bladder has on each side a horn projecting 

 forward. The American and Indian Seas produce 

 these fishes 2 . 



Ancylodon, 

 Closely resemble the Otolithi, snout very short, 

 canine teeth remarkably long, tail pointed 3 . 



Corvina, Cuv., 

 Have neither canine teeth nor barbels; all their teeth 



1 Artedi having confounded it with the Scicena nigra, it is only of 

 late years that it has heen reconsidered as a distinct fish. See my Me- 

 moir on the Maigre in the Mem. du Museum, Vol. i. p. 1 ; add the 

 Maigre of the Cape, or Labre hololepidote, Lacep. iii. 21. 2; the 

 Maigre brule, perca ocellata, Lin. ; centropomeceille, Lacep. ; the 

 Scicena imberbis of Mitchill, and the Lutjan triangle, Lacep. iii. 

 24. 3. 



2 Ot. ruber, C, or the Peche pierre of Pondicherry ; Johnnius ruber, 

 Bl. Schn. pi. xvii. ; Ot. versicolor, N., Russell, ii. 109 ; Ot. regalis, 

 Cuv. ; Joknius regalis, Bl., Sch., or Labrus squeteague, Mitchill, 

 Trans. New York, 1. 11. 6; Ot. rhomboidalis, or Lutjan of Cayenne, 

 Lacep. ix. p. 245 ; Ot. slriatus, Cuv., or guatucupa, Margr., Bras., 

 177. and many others described in our fifth volume. 



J Lonchurus ancylodon, Bl., Schn., pi. xxv. 



