MACKUEID^. 



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Fourth Family — MACRURiDiE. 

 Body terminating in a long, compressed, tapering tail, 





Fig. 254. — Scale of Macninis 

 trachjThynchus. 



Fiff. 255.— Scale of Macrurus coelorhynchus. 



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Fig. 256. — Scale from the lateral line of Macrurus australis. 



covered with spiny, heeled, or striated scales. One short ante- 



