662 TELEOSTEI CHAP. 
(15 +54), and very elongate dorsal and anal fins formed of soft 
‘rays, of which all except the first three dorsal and the first anal 
are articulated and branched. 
Although these fishes have hitherto been placed near the 
Blenniidae, the Gobiidae, or the Trachypteridae, they are nothing 
but extremely elongate Perches, and they stand in the same 
relation to the Serranidae as the Trichiuridae to the Carangidae 
and Scombridae. They hardly deserve to rank as a family 
distinct from the Pseudochromididae. 
Fia. 405.—Cepola rubescens. x. (After Cuvier and Valenciennes. ) 
Two genera, Cepola and Acanthocepola, with 10 species, from 
the Mediterranean and North-Eastern Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, 
and the Western Pacific. The Band-Fish (Cepola rubescens), which 
is common in the Mediterranean, is sometimes found on the 
British coasts; it grows to a foot and a half in length, and is 
remarkable for its bright red colour. 
Fam. 14. Hoplognathidae.—Characters of Serranidae, but 
teeth fused to form a beak as in Zetrodon ; palate toothless. 
Hoplognathus, with 4 species, from the Pacific Ocean. 
Fam. 15. Sillaginidae.—As in Serranidae, but soft dorsal 
and anal much elongate, as in Pseudochromididae, from which 
the Sillaginidae differ in the separate spinous dorsal. Palate 
toothed. Connecting the Serranidae and the Sciaenidae. 
Small Marine Fishes from the Indian and Pacific Oceans, 
ascending rivers. A single genus, Sid/ago, with about 10 species, 
