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^^ PISCES. 



But a single species is known; it is of a silver colour and in 

 habits the Indian Ocean.(l) 



Hyodon, Lesueur. 

 The form of, a Herring, abdomen trenchant but not dentated- the 



oTd^rtrL'th?-"^^^ '''''' '' ^^^"^ -^^ '- ^'^ '^-^^ - 



hooked teeth .n the jaws, vomer, palatines and tongue, as in the 

 ricrcir"'" '""" "^'^''^ ''' '"^^^ '''''''-' f ^--^h Ame- 



EuYTHEiNus, Gi-onov. 

 The fishes of .his genus, like all the rest of the family, have small 

 tn.ermax>llaes, and a great portion of the sides of the uppe "w 

 formed hy the maxillaries,- a range of conical teeth occupi 'Z 

 edge of each ja,v, among the anterior of which are some larg r th 

 the others Each of the palatines is provided with a p ate ? small 



nch is a Wide ^acf^nd' *t: trnZ:::':: r^r^'Thr'"- 



tatory bladder is very large ^^ "^" 



ag'elLetvo^'r" r"^ " '" ^'""^'- ^^ *^'- - '^ "^ an 



Wl, Lacep., the Esox argenteus, Forst. App. BI Schn 396 



American species only I am 7inf- ,,f n ' Havings seen the 



characters. ^' "' ^'' ^'^" -cquamted with their distinguishing 



(1) T\\Q Esoce chirocentrp T ir-pr. v -, 



which is the same fish :^2^^;: ]:Z' t^^' '''fT ^ ^ "' 

 the Clup. aoral, Gm., and as the Wam^. 9 " 'n i ''; ^^I^'^-' T ''' ^ ^ 

 r".^, or Chnee., of the Moluccas, Ren., VIII S^ ^^''^^^^ '^'" *^^^ ^'- 



(2) i^3/orfo;i cfo^/,;Lesueur, Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad I nl V- , o 

 tergisus, Id. lb., p. 366. i-miaa., I, pi. s^y, and p. 367;-//. 



(3) i^soa; malabaricus, Bl., 392 .%/n/7 . ^7 



Esox gymnocephalus, L. '^ ' -^-IX, probably also the 



N.B The Synodus vulpes, only known from Cateshv TT ^ , , 



me to be the same as the Ri i T t^atesby, II, xxx, which appears to 



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