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Table of Contents 



Preface xiii 



Introduction xvii 



Maps 



BONY FISHES 



Superclass, Class, Subclasses, and Orders, by H. B. Bigelow i 



Superclass Pisces 2 



Class Osteichthyes 2 



Key to Orders i6 



Text and Footnote References 1 8 



Names of Bones, by G. W. Mead and Margaret G. Bradbury 20 



Order Acipenseroidei, by V. D. Vladykov and J. R. Greeley 24 



Family Acipenseridae 26 



Genus Aci-penser 28 



Acipenser brevirostris -y^d 



Acipenser fulvescens 4 1 



Acipenser oxyrhynchus oxyrhynchus 46 



Acipenser oxyrhynchus desotoi 56 



Text and Footnote References 59 



Order Lepisostei, by R. D. Suttkus 6 1 



Family Lepisosteidae 68 



Genus Lepisosteus 69 



Lepisosteus oculatus 71 



Lepisosteus osseus 75 



Lepisosteus platyrhincus 8 o 



Lepisosteus spatula 83 



Text and Footnote References 87 



Order Isospondyli, Composite Authorship 



Characters and Keys to Suborders and Families, by H. B. Bigelow 89 



Key to Suborders 95 



Key to Families of Isospondyli, Iniomi, and 



Giganturoidei 97 



Text and Footnote References 105 



Suborder Elopoidea, Composite Authorship 



Characters and Key to Families, by H. B. Bigelow 107 



Text and Footnote References 109 



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