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the sides by the maxillaries, which are united to 

 them : both are furnished, as well as the lower jaw, 

 with a range of strong conical teeth, two of which in 

 the middle of the upper range, and all below, are of 

 extraordinary length. Their tongue and branchial 

 arches are bristled with pectiniform teeth, but they 

 have none to the palatines or vomer. Their gills 

 have seven or eight rays, of which the external are 

 very broad. Above and below each pectoral is a long, 

 pointed, membranous scale, and the pectoral rays are 

 very hard. Their body is elongated, compressed, 

 trenchant, but not dentated underneath ; their ventrals 

 are extremely small, and their dorsal shorter than 

 the anal, opposite to which it is placed. The stomach 

 is a long, narrow, and pointed sac, the pylorus near 

 the cardia, the natatory bladder long and narrow ; I 

 can find no cceca. 



But a single species is known, of a silvery hue, from 

 the Indian Ocean ! . 



Hyodon, Lesueur, 



Have the form of herrings, the belly trenchant, but 

 not dentated; the dorsal opposite the anal, eight 

 or nine rays to the gills, and hooked teeth to the 



1 The Esoce chirocentre, Lacep. V. viii. 1., Sabre or Sabran of 

 Commerson, which is the same fish as the Clupea dentex, Schn. p. 

 428., Forsk. p. 72., or as the Clupea dorab, Gmelin, and as the 

 Wallah, Russel 199. It is probahly also the Parring or Chnees of 

 the Moluccas, Ren. viii. 55. 



