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Fig. 74. .'Cotui'T irilsiiiii. 



Scarcely distiiigiiishal)le from the European (^onjti'er, which is an excellent 

 food fish and the foundation of tlie famous turtle soup, to whidi the turtle 

 furnislies only tlu> <>'arnish and tlie u;ime. 



Family ECHELIDAE. 



MURAENICHTHYS Bleeker, 185:5 (o.ymn()i)terus). 

 MURAENICHTHYS BREVIOEPS Giinther (Slender Eel). 



fMindciiichthys W(icropt''ni>i Kluuz.. Arch. f. Xaturg-., xxxviii. 1872. ]i. 43 (not 



Bleek.). 

 MuraenicJdhys hrcricfp!^ (Tiinth.. A.M.X.II.. (4). xvii. 187(i. p. 401: McCiilL. 



Endeavour Res., i. "1911. ]i. 21. lip'. 7. 



Order SOLENICHTHYES. 



Family MACRORHAMPHOSIDAE. 



CENTRISCOPS Gill, 1862 (humerosus). 



. CENTRISCOPS HUMEROSUS Richardson (Bellows Fish). 



Centriscus hiinieroisus Kich.. Zool. Ereb. e^- Terr.. 184(5, p. oG. pi. xxxiv. fig. "). 6. 

 Centriscops Minierosus Gill, Pro;-. Acad. Xat. Sci. Phil., 1862, p. 234 (footnote) ; 



McCull., Endeavour Kes., ii, 1914, p. 90. 

 Centriscus (Lrmiculina) liiimerosus Fowl.. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., lix, 1907, 



p. 425. 



