42. SCOPELID^ — SYNODUS. 
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dorsal, their distance from front of orbit twice that from base of caudal; 
distance of front of dorsal to base of caudal half its distance from tip 
of snout; caudal widely forked. Head 4; depth 13. D. 8; A. 31; P. 
IP; V. 9. Lat. 1. GO. Puget Sound, scarcely differing from the pre- 
ceding, the teeth a little weaker. 
{Faralejpis coruscans Jor. & Gilb. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas. 1880, 411.) 
Family XLIL— SCOPELID^. 
{The Scoiielids.) 
Body oblong or elongate, compressed or not, naked or covered with 
scales, which arc usually cycloid. Mouth very wide, the entire margin 
of the upper jaw formed by the long and slender premaxillaries, closely 
adherent to which are the slender maxillaries, the latter sometimes rudi- 
meutal or obsolete. Teeth various, mostly cardiform on both jaws, 
tongue, and palatines ; canines often resent; large teeth usually de- 
pressible. ISio barbels. Opercular bones usually thin, often incomplete. 
Gill-membranes separate, free from the isthmus. Branchiostegals usu- 
ally numerous. Pseudobranchim present. Gill-rakers various. Lateral 
line usually present. Cheeks and opercles commonly scaly. Adipose 
liu present in most of the genera. Dorsal fin short, median or rather 
anterior, of soft rays only. Pectorals and ventrals present. Anal fin 
moderate or long. Caudal forked. Skeleton weakly ossified. Air- 
bladder small or wanting. Intestinal canal short. Sides sofiietimes 
with phosphorescent spots. Eggs inclosed in the sacs of the ovary and 
extruded through an oviduct. Genera 10, species about 50, mostly in- 
habiting deep water in Avarm regions. 
{Scopdidai group Sauriiia Giiutber, v, 3i)3-417.) 
*Bo(ly without phosphorescent spots. {Sijnodontina!.) ^ 
a. Teeth not barbed ; maxillary not dilated behind ; teeth on the palate in a single 
band on each side Syxodus, 130. 
**Bo(ly with phosphorescent spots. (.Scopc/iwea.) 
b. Body coinijressed, covered with large, smooth scales Myctophum, 131. 
130.— SYr¥©I>US Bloch & Schneider. 
Lizard-Jishes. 
{Saurus Cuvier, 1817.) 
(Gronovius; Bloch & Schneid. Ichth. 1801, 39G: tyiie Esox synodus L.) 
Body oblong or elongate, nearly terete. Head depressed, the snout 
triangular, rather pointed. Interorbital region transversely concave. 
