394 SC0PELIDJ5. 



B. Dorsal fin on the hind part of the body : Paralepidina. 

 None of the mandibulary teeth are very large . 9. Paralepis, p. 418. 

 Mandible with four or five very long fangs ... 10. Sudis, p. 419. 



C. Dorsal fin occupying nearly the entire length of the back : Alepido- 



saurina. 



Teeth of the palatines and mandible very long and strong. 



11. Alepidosaurub, p. 420. 



First Group. SAURINA. 



Scopeloids with the dorsal fin short or of moderate size, situated 

 in, or nearly in the middle of the length of the body. 



1. SAURUS*. 



Saurus, sp., Cuv. Regne Anim. 

 Saurus, Cuv. fy Vol. xxii. p. 457. 



Body subcylindrical, rather elongate, covered with scales of mode- 

 rate size ; head oblong ; cleft of the mouth very wide ; intermax- 

 illary very long, styliform, tapering ; maxillary thin, long, closely 

 adherent to the intermaxillary. Teeth cardiform, some being elon- 

 gate, slender ; all can be laid downwards and inwards ; teeth in the 

 jaws, on the tongue, and on the palatine bones ; those on the palate 

 form a single band on each side. Eye of moderate size. Pectoral 

 short. Ventral eight-rayed, the inner rays being much longer than 

 the outer ones ; this fin is inserted before the dorsal, not far behind 

 the pectorals. Dorsal fin nearly in the middle of the length of the 

 body, with thirteen or less rays ; adipose fin small ; anal short or of 

 moderate length ; caudal forked. Gill-opening very wide, the gill- 

 membranes not attached to the isthmus ; branchiostegals numerous. 

 Pyloric appendages few in number. 



Mediterranean ; tropical parts of the Atlantic and Pacific. 



1. Saurus griseus. 



Saurus, Salviani, De Aquat. p. 242. pi. 99 ; Jonston, i. tit. 3. art. 1. 



tab. 21, fig. infima. 

 Tarantola Roma?, Willughby, App. p. 29. 

 Osmerus no. 2, Artedi, Synon. p. 22 ; Genera, p. 10. 

 Salmo saurus, L. Syst. Nat. i. p. 511; Bloch, xi. p. 115 (descript. part. ; 



not fig.). 



* 1. Synodus, Gronov. Mus. Ichfh. ii. no. 151. tab. 7. fig. 1 ; Esox synodus, L. 

 Syst. Nat. i. p. 516 ; Synodus fasciatus, Lacep. v. p. 321 ; Synodus 

 synodus, Bl. Schn. p. 396.— Hab. ? 



2. Saurus meleagrides, Valenc. in D' Orb. Voy. Amer. Sud, Poiss. pi. 11. fig. 3 ; 



Saurus meleagris, Cuv. 4" Vol. xxii. p. 484. — Buenos Ayres. 



3. Lagarto, Parra, p. 36. lam. 18. fig. 2 ; Poey, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 



1863, p. 178.— Cuba. 

 1. Saurus a galon rouge, Lienard, Bix. Bapp. Soc. Hist. Nat. Maurit. 1839, 

 p. 41. — Mauritius. D. 14. A. 9. — This species may belong to the 

 jrenus Sanrida. 



