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TELEOSTEI 



Amphisile, Cuv. (Fig. 412) ; Iudo-Pacific Ocean ; and Eocene and 

 Oligocene, Europe. 



Fig. 412. 

 AmphisUe scutata, L. (After Day, Fishes of I ml in.) 



Tribe 3. Lophobranchii. 



Toothless elongate fish, with scutes, very small pectoral radials, no 

 air-bladder, and gill-lamellae in the form of rounded lobes. 



Sub-Tribe A. The anterior division of the dorsal fin is spiny. The 

 pelvic fins of the female coalesce to form an egg-pouch. 



Family Solenostomidae. Solenostomus, Lac. ; Indian and Pacific 

 Oceans. 



Sob-Tribe B. With spineless fins and scaleless body, enclosed in seg- 

 mental rings of armour formed by overlapping scutes attached to the vertebral 



sp. pf. 



Fig. 413. 



Syngnathus news, L. A, Left-side view of the anterior region ; B, the left branchial chamber 

 ■expose*! by the removal of its outer wall; C, enlarged view ofa portion of a branchial arch ; 1), 

 skeleton of the right half of the pectorabgirdle and fin, inner view; E, portion of the tail— a 

 caudal vertebra is shown behind, and a portion of the notochord is exposed. br, branchial 

 lamella; c, coraco-scapulaf cartilage; cl, cleithrum ; c.o, cut opercular wall; d.e, distal 

 cartilage supporting lepidotrich ; e, eye; g, gill; g.b, gill-bar; g.r, gill-raker; m, mouth ; n, 

 nostril; nt, persistent constricted notochord: op, operculum; pj, pectoral fin ; pi, bony 

 derma] plate ; r, 5th radial ; sp, opening of branchial chamber ; v, vertebra. 



