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= Osiraciones, Bleeker, Enum. Sp. Pise. Archip. Indico, xiv, 1859 , Atlas Ichthyo- 



logique, v, 1865, p. 25. 

 = Osfracodenni, Gill, Arraugement of the Families of the Fishes, 1872 (November), 



pp. xii, i. 

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



Family OSTRACIONTID^. 



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



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



Subfam. Ostracince, Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish. Ampbib. and Rept. 1839, ii, pp. 194,323. 



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

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



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



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

 28-3G. 



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



(Family) Osf radon idat, Kaup, Archiv flir Naturgeschichte, 1855, pp. 215-221. 



Famille des Ostracionides, Hollard, Aunales des Sciences Naturelles, vii, 1856, pp. 121- 

 170, pi. xiii. 



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

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



Group Ostradontina, GCnther, Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum, viii, 

 1870, pp. 255-268. 



OstradidcP; 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 Fish Pacific Coast (unpublished). 



Ostradontes, Fitzlnger, 1. c. snp. 



DIAGNOSIS OF FAMILY. 



Plectognath fishes with short, angular 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. Vertebrae 14, the first 9 elongate. No ribs. 



SYNOPSIS OF GENERA. 



Carapace forming a continuous bridge behind anal fin, ventral surface acarinate, 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 OSTRACIOK 



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



= Ostradones poh/odontes, Artedi, 1. c. 



= Ostradon, Lixn/EUS, Syst. Nat. ed. x, 1758, 1, p. 330 ; od. xii, 1766, p. 407. 



Les Ostradons, Lacepede. 



Les Coffres {Ostradon L.), Cuvier, Rfegno Animal, ed.l, 1817, p. 154; ed.li, 1829, p. 375. 



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



Ostradon + Tetrosomus + Ladophrys + jRhinesomus, SwaInson, Nat. Hist. Fish. Amphib. 

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



Ostradon, Bleeker, Verhandclingeu van liet Bataviasch Genootschap van Kunsten 

 en Wetenschapcn, xxiv, 1852, Bijdrage tot do Kennis der Balistini en Ostra- 

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



