1. FISTULARIA. 529 



Fam. 45. FISTULARID.E. 



Bouches en flute, part., Cuv. Reyne Anim. 



Fistularidse, part., Miill. Berl. Ahhandl. 1844, p. 201 ; Oiven, Led. 



Comp. Anat. i. p. 49. 

 Aulostomatoidei et Fistularoidei, Bleek. Unum, pp. xxiii & xxvi. 



Fishes of greatly elongated form ; the anterior bones of the skull 

 are much produced, and form a long tube terminating in a narrow 

 mouth. Teeth small. Parts of the skeleton and dennal productions 

 form external mails ; scales none, or small. The spiaous dorsal fin is 

 either formed by feeble isolated spines or entirely absent ; the soft 

 dorsal and anal of moderate length ; ventral fins abdominal, composed 

 of six rays, without spine ; they are separate from the pubic bones, 

 which remain attached to the humeral arch. Branchiostegals five ; 

 air-bladder large ; four gUls ; pseudobranchiae. Pyloric appendages 

 in small number ; intestinal tract short. Vertebrae very numerous. 



Tropical parts of the Atlantic and of the Indian Ocean. 



Syttopsis of the Genera. 



Body scaleless 1 . Fistularia, p. 529. 



Body with small scales 2. Aulostoma, p. 535. 



1. FISTULARIA. 



Fistularia, sp., Z. S_i/sf. Nat. i. p. .51-5. 

 Solenostomus, sp., Klein 8f Groiior. 

 Fistularia, Lacep. v. p. 349. 

 Cannorhynchus, Cant. Catal. p. 211. 



Body scaleless. Caudal fin forked, with the two middle rays pro- 

 duced into a filament ; no free dorsal spines. Teeth small. 

 Tropical parts of the Atlantic and of the Indian Ocean. 



1. Fistularia tabaccaria. 



Parra, p. 63. tab. 30. fig. 1 ; Marcgr. p. 148 ; Catesby, Carol, ii. p. 17. 



tab. 17. fig. 2. 

 Fistularia tabaccaria, L. Miis. Ad. Fried, i. p. 80. tab. 26. fig. 2, and 



Sijst. Nat. i. p. 515; Bl. viii. p. 126. tab. 387. fig. 1; Bl Schn. p. 114; 



Cuv. B£yne Anim. ; Gueriii, leonogr. Poiss. pi. 45. fig. 1. 

 Solenostomus, Gronov. Mm. i. p. 11. no. 31, and Zoophyl. p. 119. 



no. 365 ; Klein, Pise. Miss. iv. p. 25. nos. 4 & 5 ; Brown, Jamaica, 



p. 441. no. 1. 

 Fistularia petimba, Lacep. v. pp. 349, 350. 

 Flagellaria fistularis, Gronov. !Syst. ed. Gray, p. 146. 

 Aulastoma marcgravii, Casteln. Anim. nouv. ou rares de I'Amer. Sud, 



Poiss. p. 30. pi. 9. fig. 3. 



D. 16. A. 16. P. 1.5. V. 6. C. 3 + 6 I 2 I 64-3. 

 Vert. 4-1-49 I 33. 

 The outer edge of the tube is smooth, or so indistinctly serrated as 



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