Bony Fishes 



Superclass, Class, Subclasses, 

 and Orders 



HENRY B. BIGELOW 



Museum of Comparative Zoology 

 Harvard University 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



With grateful acknowledgment for many helpful criticisms and suggestions from 

 William W. Anderson, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service ; Frederick H. Berry, U. S. 

 Fish and Wildlife Service ; Rolf L. Bolin, Hopkins Marine Station ; Daniel M. 

 Cohen, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service ; Myvanwy M. Dick, Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology, Harvard ; Robert H. Gibbs, Boston University ; Joseph Gregory, 

 Peabody Museum of Natural History, Tale ; N. B. Marshall, British Museum 

 [Natural History); Giles W. Mead, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard; 

 James E. Morrow, University of Alaska; George S. Myers, Natural History Mu- 

 seum, Stanford University ; Tngve H. Olsen, Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory, 

 Tale ; Alfred S. Romer, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard; Bobb Schaeffer, 

 American Museum of Natural History ; William C. Schroeder, Woods Hole Oceano- 

 graphic Institution ; Leonard P. Schultz, U. S. National Museum ; Royal D. Sutt- 

 kus, Tulane University ; John Tee-Van, New Tork Zoological Society ; Ethelwynn 

 Trewavas, British Museum {Natural History) ; Vladimir Walters, University of 

 California ; and Norman J. Wilimovsky, University of British Columbia. 



