490 ORDER xMALACOPTERYGII SUBBRACHIATI. 



preserves its mobility. The entire head and the 

 whole body are furnished with hard scales, bristling 

 with small spines. The ventrals are small, and a little 

 jugular ; the pectorals moderate. The first dorsal is 

 short and elevated ; the second dorsal and the anal 

 are both very long, and unite in a point at the caudal ; 

 the jaws have only very fine and very short teeth. 

 These fishes live at very great depths, and utter a 

 sound like the growlers, when they are taken out of 

 the water. 



But two species are known, inhabiting the deep 

 parts of our seas, LepidoL ccelorhyncus, and trachyrhyn- 

 cus, Risso, first edition, pi. vii. f. 21. and 22 \ 



The second family of the Malacopterygii Sub- 

 brachiati, vulgarly called 



FLAT-FISHES, 

 Comprehends the great genus 



1 N.B. We are assured, from a direct comparison, that the Lepido- 

 leprus ccelorhyncus of the Mediterranean, Risso, first ed. pi. vii. 

 f. 22, differs in nothing from the Macrourus rupestris, BL 177 ; or 

 Coryphcena rupestris, Gmelin, Gunner, Mem de Dronth, III. pi. iii. 

 f. 1. The I^epidoleprus trachyrhyncus, Riss. ib. f. 21. is the same 

 fish as the Oxycephas scabrus, Rafinesque, Index, pi. i. f. 2. The 

 same species, or a very kindred one, of Japan, is in the Atlas of the 

 Voy. of Krusenstern, pi. lx. f. 8. and 9. Giorna had already given 

 incomplete figures of the two species, Mem de TAc. de Turin. 

 Vol. IX. pi. i. The Lep. trachyr. is also the mysticetus of Aldrovan- 

 dus, Pise. p. 34 2. 



