PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 269 



= Ostraciones, Bleeker, Eunm. Sp. Pise. Archip. Indico, xiv, 1859 , Atlas Ichthyo- 



logique, v, 1865, p. 25. 

 = Ostracodermi, Gill, Arrangement of the Families of the Fishes, 1872 (November), 



pp. xii, i. 

 = Cataphracti, Fitzinger, Sitzungsb. k. Akad. Wiss. (Wien), Ixvii, Abth. 1, 1873, p. 47. 



Family OSTRACIONTIDJE. 



Osfracidi, Rafinesque, Indice d'lttiolog. Siciliana, 1810, p. 39 (Gill). 



Ostracidia, Rafinesque, Analyse de la Nature, 1815 (as subfamily, fide Gill). 



Subfam. Ostracinw, Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish. Amphib. and Rept. 1839, ii, pp. 194, 323. 



OsiracionHm, Bonaparte, Nuovi Annali d. Sci. Nat. ii, 1838, p. 131 ; iv, 1840, p. 186 (as 

 subfamily, fide Gill) ; Nardo, 1. c. inf. p. 71. 



Ostracmitidcv, Nardo, Atti Congressi Scienz. Ital. rac. et ord. i (1842), 1844, p. 70 (Gill). 



Ostraciones, Bleeker, Bijdrage; Balist. en Ostraciones van den Ind. Archip. 1852, pp. 

 28-36. 



(Family) Ostraciontidce, Gill, Arrangement of the Families of Fishes, 1872, p. 1. 



(Family) Ostracionidw, Kaup, Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte, 1855, pp. 215-221. 



Famille des Ostracionides, Hollaed, Annales des Sciences Naturelles, vii, 1856, pp. 121- 

 170, pi. xiii. 



Familia Ostraciotioidei, Bleeker, "Enum. sp. Pise. Archipel. Ind. xiv, 1859;" Atlas 

 Ichthyologique, v, 1865, pp. 24-42, ppl. cci-cciv. 



Group Ostraciontina, GtJNTHER, Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum, -v-iii, 

 1870, pp. 255-268. 



Osiracudo', Cope, Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci. xx, 1872, p. 340 ; Goode, Cat. Fish Bermu- 

 das, 1876, p. 53 (name only) ; Gill, Bibliog. Fish Pacific Coast (unpublished). 



Ostracionteii, Fitzinger, I.e. sup. 



DIAGNOSIS OF FAMILY. 



Plectognatli fishes with short, anguhir bodies, covered by a modified 

 integument consisting of numerous closely juxtaposed polygonal osse- 

 ous plates. Caudal peduncle, bases of fins, and snout covered with 

 flexible skin. Maxillary and intermaxillary bones anchylosed. A sin- 

 gle row of short teeth in each jaw. A single dorsal fin opposite the 

 anal ; no ventrals. Vertebr;© 14, the first 9 elongate. No ribs. 

 synopsis of genera. 



Carapace forming a continuous bridge behind anal fin, ventral surface acariuate, cau- 

 dal with 10 rays Ostracion (Art. ) Linn. 



Carapace open behind anal fin, ventral surface carinate, caudal with 11 rays or more. 



Aracana, Gray. 



Genus OSTRACION. 



> Ostracion, Artedi, Gen. Pise. 1738, p. 55, 



= Ostraciones polyodontes, Artedi, 1. c. 



= Ostracion, Linn.eus, Syst. Nat. ed. x, 1758, 1, p. 330; ed. xii, 1766, p. 407. 



Les Ostracions, Lacepede. 



Les Coffres {Ostracion L.), Cuvier, R^igne Animal, ed. 1, 1817, p. 154; ed. ii, 1829, p. 375. 



Ostracion, Gray, Annal. Nat. Hist. 1, 1838, p. 110. 



Ostracion + Tetrosonms -\- Lactophrys -\- Bhinesomus, Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish. Amphib. 

 and Rept. 1839, ii, pp. 193-194, 323-324. 



Ostracion, Bleeker, Verhaudelingen van het Bataviasch Genootschap van Kuusten 

 en Weteuschapen, xsiv, 1852, Bijdrage tot de Kenuis der Balistiui en Ostra- 

 ciones van den Indische Archipel. p. 28; Atlas Ichthyologique, v, 1865, pp. 25-42. 



