BER YC I FORMES 



427 



The Berycidae preserve the orbitosphenoid, as well as the alisphenoid and 

 basisphenoid (Starks [421]). 



Hoplopteryx, Ag. (Beryx) (Fig. 432) ; Sphenocephalies, Ag. — Cretaceous, 

 Europe. Acrogaster, Ag. ; Holopteryx, Ag. — Cretaceous, Europe and Mt. 



Restoration of Hoplopteryx lewesiensis, Mantell ; from the English Chalk. 

 (After A. S. Woodward, from Brit. Mus. Guide.) 



Lebanon. Dinopteryx, A. S. W. ; Cretaceous, Mt. Lebanon. Myripristis, 

 Cuv. ; Hole-centrum, Cuv. — tropical seas ; and Eocene, Europe. Beryx, 

 Cuv. (Fig. 431) ; Gephyroberyx, Blgr. ; Polymixia, Lowe ; Plectromus, 

 Gill ; Gaiilolepis, Gill ; Trachichthys, Shaw — tropical seas. 



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Fig. 433. 

 Pemphci is russdli, Day. (After Day, Fishes of India.) 



Family Aphredoderidae. Perhaps allied to the last, but with non- 

 protractile jaws, and the anus very far forwards. They have no myodome, 

 no orbitosphenoid, and no subocular shelf. 



Aphrecloderus, Les. ; North America. Asincops, Cope ; Eocene, 

 North America. 



