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Fam. 45. FISTULARIDJi. 



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



Fistularidae, part., Mull. Berl. Abhand' 1844, p. 201 ; Owen, Led. 



Comp. Anat. i. p. 49. 

 Aulostomatoidei et Fistularoidei, Bleek. Enum. 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 dermal productions 

 form external mails ; scales none, or small. The spinous 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 arc separate from the pubic bones, 

 which remain attached to the humeral arch. Branchiostegals five ; 

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

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



Tropical parts of the Atlantic and of the Indian Ocean, 



Synopsis of the Genera. 



Body scaleless 1 . Fistularia, p. 529. 



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



1. FISTULARIA. 



Fistidaria, sp., L. Syst. Nat. i. p. 515. 

 Solenostomiis, sp., Klein 8f Groitor. 

 Fistularia, Lacep. v. p. 349. 

 Cannorhynehus, 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. 

 Tx'opical parts of the Atlantic and of the Indian Ocean. 



1. Fistulana tabaccaria, 



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



tab. 17. fig. 2. 

 Fistularia tabaccaria, L. Mm. Ad. Fried, i. p. 80. tab. 20. fig. 2, and 



S>/.st. Nat. i. p. 515; Bl. viii. p. 126. tab. 387. fig. 1; Bl. Schti. p. 114; 



Cui\ Begtic Anim. ; Guerin, Iconogr. Poi,ss. pi. 45. fig. 1. 

 Solenostomus, Gronov. Mus. i. p. ll. no. 31, and Zoophgl. p. 119. 



no. 865 ; Klein, Pise. Miss. iv. p. 25. nos. 4 & 5 ; Brotcn, Jamaica, 



p. 441. no. 1. 

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

 Flagellaria fistularia, Gronov. byst. ed. Gray, p. 146. 

 . Aulastoma mai-cgTavii, Casteln. Anim. nouv, ou rares de FAtn^r. Sud, 



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



D. 16. A. 16. P. 15. V. 6. -C.3 + C I 2 I 6 + 3. 

 Vert. 4 + 49 I 33. 



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

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