﻿Classification 
  of 
  some 
  Teleostean 
  Fishes. 
  3 
  

  

  with 
  16 
  branched 
  rays; 
  pelvics 
  subabdominal, 
  7 
  or 
  8 
  rayed, 
  

   without 
  spine. 
  Jaws 
  with 
  villiform 
  teeth 
  in 
  bands 
  ; 
  teeth 
  

   on 
  parasphenoid, 
  vomer, 
  palatines, 
  pterygoids, 
  and 
  meso- 
  

   pterygoids. 
  A 
  pair 
  of 
  hyoid 
  barbels. 
  Upper 
  edge 
  of 
  

   mnxillary 
  slipping 
  under 
  the 
  prajorbital 
  and 
  anterior 
  sub- 
  

   orbitals 
  ; 
  two 
  supramaxillaries, 
  the 
  posterior 
  not 
  overlapping 
  

   the 
  anterior 
  ; 
  all 
  the 
  suborbitals 
  forming 
  a 
  subocular 
  shelf 
  ; 
  

   nasals 
  moderately 
  large, 
  separated 
  in 
  front 
  by 
  the 
  prsemaxillary 
  

  

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  1. 
  

  

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  As 
  

  

  Skeleton 
  of 
  caudal 
  fin 
  of 
  Polymixia 
  nobilis 
  (1) 
  and 
  Hoplopteryx 
  

   a 
  finis 
  (2). 
  

  

  n 
  } 
  neural 
  spine 
  ; 
  h, 
  haemal 
  spine 
  ; 
  ep, 
  epaxial 
  basalia 
  (epurals) 
  ; 
  

   u, 
  uroneurals 
  ; 
  %, 
  hypurala 
  ; 
  c, 
  c', 
  centra. 
  

  

  processes 
  and 
  behind 
  by 
  the 
  ethmoid, 
  to 
  which 
  they 
  are 
  

   united 
  by 
  suture 
  ; 
  supraoccipital 
  and 
  parietals 
  not 
  overlapped 
  

   by 
  the 
  frontals, 
  with 
  prominent 
  crests 
  ; 
  occipital 
  crest 
  ex- 
  

   tending 
  to 
  anterior 
  edge 
  of 
  frontals 
  ; 
  alisphenoids 
  separate, 
  

   bridged 
  by 
  the 
  orbitosphenoid. 
  Hypocoracoids 
  narrowed 
  

   forwards 
  below 
  ; 
  pelvic 
  bones 
  remote 
  from 
  the 
  cleithra. 
  

   Vertebrae 
  28-34 
  ; 
  last 
  two 
  centra 
  upturned 
  and 
  anterior 
  uro- 
  

   neural 
  united 
  with 
  the 
  penultimate 
  centrum 
  by 
  suture. 
  

  

  