TRANSACTIONS 



OF 



THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



I. Supplement to " A Synopsis of the Fishes of Madeira* ." By the Rev. R. T. Lowe, 



M.A., Corr. Memb. of the Zool. Soc. 



Communicated May 28, 1839. 



Fam. PfiRciDiE. 

 Genus Callanthias. 



Gen. Char. — Head scaly, except the short muzzle before the eyes ; teeth as in Anthias, 

 Bl. ; preopercle perfectly entire ; opercle with two flat adpressed spines ; lateral line 

 high up, near the back, and ending at the end of the dorsal fin, which is even or con- 

 tinuous ; branchiostegous membrane with six rays. 



Callanthias paradis^eus. A most elegant httle fish ; in general habit and colour- 

 ing resembUng Anthias sacer, Bl., but without the produced third spine of the dorsal 

 fin. Its analogies are singularly comphcated, but its affinities are truly Percidous. By 

 Bloch it might have been arranged either in Bodianus or Cepkalopkolis, Bl., but it is 

 really inadmissible into any well-defined or constituted modern genus. It is almost as 

 rare as beautiful. 



Fam. Berycidve. 

 Genus Beryx, Cuv. 

 Beryx decadactylus, Cuv. B. corpore ovali, lata, profunda, altitudine longitudi- 

 nem capitis super ante ; dorso elevato, arcuato, gibbo ; ventre prominente : basi pinn<F 

 * Published in the Transactions of the Zoological Societ)-, vol. ii. p. 173. 

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