89. BRAMID^ — PTERACLIS. 
455 
716. C. siieuri Cuv. & Val. 
This species appears to differ from the preceding in the increased num- 
ber of tin rays. The elevated crest represented in DeKay’s figure of his 
“C. glohiceps’’'^ is a character of very old individuals. “D. 64; A. 20.” 
[Guv. (fi Val.) “D. 63; A. 29.” {DeKay.) Atlantic coasts of the TJnited 
States; rare. 
(Cuv. & Val. ix, 302: Corypliwna glohiceps DeKay, New York F.auna, Fish. 1842, 132.) 
Family LXXX.— BRzVMID^. 
[The Bramoids.) 
Body oblong or elevated, compressed, covered with cycloid or spinous 
scales. Mouth wide, oblique ; the jaws, vomer, and palatines provided 
with sm.dl teeth. Preniaxillaries protractile. Snout more or less ob- 
tuse and convex. Dorsal and anal fins very long, both more or less 
elevated; ventrals thoracic or jugular, the number of rays usually not 
I, 5. Branchiostegals 7. Pseudobranchiie iiresent. Pyloric append- 
ages few. Vertebrm more than 10-1-14. General; species about 10, 
inhabiting the open seas. 
(Scombridce : genera Brama, Taractes, and Pteraclis Gunther, ii, 408-411.) 
* Dorsal fin very high, extending from the forehead to the caiidal fin, composed of very 
slender, inarticulate spines; anal tin similar; ventral fins jugular. [PteracUnce.) 
a. Jaws, vomer, and palatines with small teeth ; air-hladder very small. 
Pteraclis, 238. 
236.— PTERACLIS Gronovius. 
(Gronovius, Act. Helvet. vii, 44, 1772: type Corynlmna veVifera Pallas.) 
Body coiniiressed, oblong, covered with moderate-sized cycloid, lobate 
or emarginate scales. Ej'e large. Dorsal fin very much elevated, ex- 
tending from the forehead to the base of the caudal, composed of filiform 
spines, its form triangular, its base scarcely less than the total lengtli 
of the fish; anal fin similar in form, also comiiosed of slender fragile 
spines ; ventrals jugular, nearly under the ej e, long, of 4-6 slender rays. 
Pseudobranchite present. Air-bladder very small. Most of the species 
of this singular genus inhabit the Indian Ocean, {-rspdv, fin or wing; 
z/J.s'w, to close. “The name indicating the double rows of scales which 
embrace the bases of the two vertical tins.”) 
717 . P. caB’OliBiBiS Cuv. & Val. 
Silvery, with bluish reflections. Mouth larger, scales larger, and 
fourth ray of the dorsal stouter than in other species. D. LII; A. LXIV. 
