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and excluded by oviducts. Pyloric appendages few in number 

 or absent. Intestinal tract very short. 



Genus Saurtjs, Cuv. & Val. 



Body sub-cylindrical, rather elongate, covered with scales of 

 moderate size ; head oblong ; cleft of the mouth very wide ; 

 intermaxillary very long, styliform, tapering ; maxillary thin, 

 long, closely adherent to the intermaxillary. Teeth cardiform, 

 some being elongate, slender ; all can be laid downwards and 

 inwards ; teeth in the jaws, on the tongue, and on the palatine 

 bones, those on the palate form a single band on each side. Eye 

 of moderate size. Pectoral fin short ; ventral eight-rayed, the 

 inner rays much longer than the outer ; it is inserted before the 

 dorsal, and not far behind the pectorals. The dorsal fin is 

 situated nearly in the middle of the length of the body, with 

 thirteen or less rays ; adipose fin small ; anal short or of moderate 

 length ; caudal forked. Gill-opening very wide, the gill- 

 membranes not attached to the isthmus ; branchiostegals numerous. 

 Pyloric appendages few in number. 



Tropical parts of the Atlantic and Pacific. Mediterranean. 



825. Saurtjs myops, Cuv. & Val. 



Gunth.. Cat. Pishes V., p. 398.— Bleek., Atl. Ichth. Saurid., tab. 



2., fig. 3. 

 B. 16. D. 12. A. 15-16. L lat. 56-58. L. transv. 3|/7. 



The length of the head is two-seventha of the total length 

 (without caudal) ; crown of the head and occiput finely 

 corrugated ; interorbital space deeply concave. Snout rather 

 obtuse, short, shorter than the eye, with the lower jaw a little 

 projecting beyond the upper. Dorsal fin as high as long ; the 

 pectoral extends to the tenth scale of the lateral line ; the ventral 

 to, or nearly to, the vent. Tail compressed. Scapula black. 



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