BONES FORMING OPERCULAR SERIES OF FISHES 



A list of the Javiilies of the spiny-rayed fishes (Acanthopieri) and their derivative 



examined^ 



Atherinidae 



Mugilidae 



Sphyraenidae 



Stephanoberj'cidae 



Polynemiidae 



Zeidae 



Berycidae 



Holocentridae 



Polymixiidae 



Scombridae 



Carangidae 



Coryphaenidae 



Leiognathidae 



Centrarchidae 



Percidae 



Apogonidae 



Centropomidae 



Serranidae 



Lobotidae 



Priacanthidae 



Lutianidae 



Haemulidae 



Sparidae 



Gerridae 



Kyphosidae 



Mullidaeio 



Sciaenidae 



Champsodoutidae 



Malacanthidae 



Cepolidae 



Cirrhitidae 



Embiotocidae 



Cichlidae 



Pomacentridae 



Labridae 



Scaridae 



Scorpididae 



Toxotidae 



Ephippidae 



Ilarchidae 



Acanthuridae 



Siganidae 



Balistidae 



Monacanthidae 



Ostraciidae 



Tetraodontidae 



Diodontidae 



Scorpaenidae 



Anaplopomatidae 



Hexagrammidae 



Platycephalidae 



Cottidae 



Agonidae 



Cyclopteridae 



Cyglogasteridae 



Triglidae 



Cephalacanthidae 



Eleotridae^^ 



Goyjiidaei- 



Echeneidae 



Bothidae 



Pleuronectidae 



Soleidae^^ 



Trachinidae 



Nototheniidae 



Pteropsaridae 



Bath\Tnasteridae 



Uranoscopidae 



Callionymidae 



Clinidae 



Blenniidae 



Stichaeidae 



Xiphidiidae 



Lumpenidae 



Pholididae" 



Anarhichadidae 



Scytalinidae 



Zoarcidae 



Ophidiidae 



Brotulidae 



Batrachoididae 



Gobiesocidae 



Gadidae 



Coryphaenoididae 



Lophiidae 



Antennariidae 



Ogcocephalidae 



^ The sequence of families adopted by Doctor Jordan in his Guide to the Study 

 of Fishes ('05) is here followed. 



i» Branchiostegals four plus naught in the species examined. 



" Branchiostegals four plus two or four plus three in all the genera examined, 

 Eviota excepted. 



1* Branchiostegals four plus one in the numerous genera studied. 



1^ The branchiostegals of all the flat fishes examined are of a very similar 

 type. 



" The writer follows Regan in the classification of the blennioid fishes. 



