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^^ PISCES. 



of the ^ethmoid, vomer, preopercula, interopercula, pterygoi- 

 dals and tympanals, and at the extremity of which is the 

 th, composed as usual of the intermaxillaries, maxillaries, 

 and he palatine and mandibulary bones. Their intestine ha 

 neither great mequahties nor many folds, and their ribs are 

 short or wanting. iius are 



Some of them, the Fistularia., have a cylindrical body: in 

 others, the Centnsci, it is oval and compressed. 



FiSTULAEIA, Lin. 

 The name of these fishes, in particular, is derived from the tube 

 common to the .hole family. The jaws are a. its extremity slLht^y 

 cleft in a nearly horizontal direrfinn Ti i j '^'""yj sugnuy 



a., some hLy ^.^^^:z:tz:r::z: z^z^ 



nor par. of the body, which they strengthen more o less The dor 

 sal ts opposite to the anal; the omach, resembling a flehy tube is 



=;::ir:-re:'ct:a"r'"-'-" 



FiSTULAEIA, properly so called. 

 Or the FisTULAUiA, Lacep., there is but a single dorsal most of 

 ^hich, as well as of the anal, is composed of simple rays The in 



re3''r: r ots':rtraT;''' T r" '-* "^" 



^o-netimes as long as .::^-Z .reTfthe^ rirvI^^^L'; 

 Tn": hiX" The -tatory bladder excessively small, and .he's ale! 



AuLosTOMus, Lacei).(2) 

 The dorsal is preceded by several fppp <:T.;r.e i .1 

 cut teeth, the very scaly aL lessllte?:?; "3^^^^^ 

 pressed hetween the dorsal and the anal, and fjllowld bja short Id 



(2) Jlulostomus, from uvkoc and ro>a. 



