392 ORDER MALACOPTERYGII ABDOMINALES. 



Chauliodus, Schn, 



As far as may be judged by a single figure (Catesby, 

 Suppl. pl.ix. Schn. pi. Ixxxv.) these fishes possess con- 

 siderable affinities with stomias in the head and jaws. 

 Two teeth in each jaw cross over the opposite jaw 

 when the mouth is closed ; the dorsal corresponds to 

 the interval of the pectorals and of the ventrals, which 

 are much less farther back than in stomias, and the 

 first ray of this dorsal is elongated into a filament. 



As yet but a single species has been found, in the 

 neighbourhood of Gibraltar, Chauliodus Sloani, Schn. 

 pi. Ixxxv. ; Esox stomias, Shaw, V. part i. pi. iii., 

 fifteen or eighteen inches in length, and of a deep 

 green \ 



Salanx 2 , Cuv. 



The head is depressed, the opercula folding back un- 

 derneath, four flat rays to the branchiae, the jaws 

 short and pointed, each furnished with a range of bent 

 teeth, the upper almost wholly formed by the inter- 

 maxillaries, without pedicles ; the lower jaw is a little 

 elongated from the symphysis, by a small appendage 

 furnished with some teeth ; the palate and the bottom 

 of the mouth are entirely smooth : no lingual pro- 

 jection is even visible 3 . 



1 The Stomias Schneideri, Riss. 2nd edit. p. 37. appears to me to 

 be of another genus, and even of another order. 



2 Salanx, a Greek name of an unknown fish. 

 There is hut one species as yet known. 



