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mental bone. Villiform teeth on intermaxillary, mandibulary, 
-vomer, and palatines. Patches of coarse blunt teeth on pte- 
rygoids and tongue. Dorsal in front of ventrals. Anal very 
small, near caudal and far behind anus. Caudal deeply forked. 
Pectorals low down. Gillrakers short, tubercle-like. Gillmem- 
branes separate, free from isthmus. Branchiostegals 14—16. 
Pseudobranchiae present. 
1. Albula Bloch, Schneider. 
(BLocH, SCHNEIDER, Syst. ichth. 1801, p. 432). 
For characters of the single genus see those of the family. 
1. Albula vulpes (L.). 
Esox vulpes Linné. Syst. Nat. ed. X® 1758, p. 313. 
Albula conorhynchus Giinther. Cat. Brit. Mus. VII. 1868, p. 468. 
Conorhynchus glossodon Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. VI. 1866—1872, p. 83. 
Albula conorhynchus Day. Fishes of India. 4°. 1878—1888, p. 648. 
Albula glossodon Giinther. Fische der Sitidsee. Heft VIII. 1909, p. 385. 
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Fig. 5. Adbula vulpes (L.) — Transformation of the translucent larvae I and Il 
into the young fish IJI during which the size decreases (after GILBERT), 
