NO. 1211. CERTAIN FISHES OF JAPAN— JORDAN AND SNYDER. 
Order LOPHOBRANCHI I. 
THE LOPHOBRANCHS. 
Gills tiiftod, not lainiiuitod, ooinposod of .small rounded lol)cs attached 
to the iiill arches. Interclavicles well developed. Scapula suspended 
to the cranium by a post-temporal.' Superior branchih^^als and pharyn- 
geals, and basal branchihyals wanting or not ossified. Mouth \'ery 
small, bounded above I)}' the premaxillaries. Post-temporal simple, 
coossified with the cranium; l)asis of the cranium simple. Pectoral 
fins with elevated bases. Anterior vertebrae modified, the diapophyses 
much expanded. Air bladder simple, without air duct. Snout pro- 
duced, bearing the small toothless mouth at the end. Gill covers 
reduced to a large simple plate. Skin with bony plates. Muscular 
system little developed. 
(Ao^og, crest; fipayx. gill.) 
FAMILIKS OF LorilOHKANCIUI. 
a. Spinous and soft dorsal i)ivyent; vtniti'al tiuH present; trill (Openings wide. 
SoI.ENOSTOlMID.K. 2 
(lit. spinous dorsal tin wautiiig; no ventral lins; gill o})eiiiiigs narrow. 
Syngnatiud^e. 3 
Family ^I. SOLENOSTOMID.E. 
Body compressed, the tail very short, the snout long, compressed. 
All parts covered with thin skin, below which is the dermal skeleton 
with star-like ossifications. Spinous dorsal shoj-t; soft dorsal and anal 
long, with elevated base; caudal long. Ventrals close together, inserted 
opposite spinous dorsal, each of seven rays; the tins free in the male; 
in the female adnate to the body forming a large pouch for the 
reception of the eggs. Branchiostegals 4, very thin. Intestinal canal 
very simple. Singular tishes of the East Indies, constituting a single 
genus. 
2. SOLENOSTOMUS Laeepede. 
SulcnoxtomiiK Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, p. 36 {paradoxus.) 
Characters of the genus included above. {acoXrjv^ razor; ar/ma^ 
mouth.) 
a. Snout rather stout, its median depth 4^ in its length; color pink, everywhere with 
fine brown spots; lirst dorsal with two large ovate black spots; caudal with 
smaller spots cyanopterm. 2 
aa. Snout elongate, its median depth 6^ in its length; color brownish, irregularly 
mottled with orange; membrane of dorsal and caudal blotched with darker, 
the spots on first and second membranes of dorsal most distinct . .paradoxus. 3 
