244 VERTEBRATE AXIMALS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 



Sl'B-CLASS PHYSOCLISTI. CLOSED-BLADDER FISHES. 

 ORDER PLECTOGNATHI. 



Fishes which have the intermaxillary bone (that in front of the upper 

 jaw bone) immovably united with the jaw bone. Ventral fins absent. 

 Skin hard, rough, or covered with plates. Marine fishes. 



ORTHAGORISCID^. 

 SUN-FISH. Mola rotunda, Cuvier. 



TETRODONTID^. . 



PIN-CUSHION; RABBIT FISH. Chilomycterus geometricus, (Bl. and Schn.) 



Kaup. 

 SMOOTH PUFFER ; TAMBOR. Lagocephalus Isevigatus, (Linne) Gill, 

 ROUGH PUFFER ; BLOWER ; SWELLFISH. Tetrodon turgidus, (Mitch.) Gill. 

 ? SPENGLER'S PUFFER. Tetrodon spengleri, Bloch. 



BALISTID.E. 



LONG-TAILED FILE FISH. Alutera schoepffi, ( Walb.) Goode. 

 CHECKERED FILE FISH. Alutera scripta, (Osbeck) Bleeker. 

 HOG FISH ; FILE FISH Ceratacanthus aurantiacus, (:\Iitch.) Gill. 

 STORER'S FILE FISH ; FOOL FISH. Monacanthus broccus, (Mitch.) Dek. 

 • EUROPEAN FILE FISH ; OLD-AVIFE; LEATHER-JACKET. Balistes capris- 

 cus, Gmelin. 



OSTRACIIDiE. 

 COW-FISH ; CUCKOLD. Ostracium quadricorne, L. 



ORDER PEDICULATI. 



Fishes, prominently represented by the goose-fish (Lophius piscatorius), 

 which are peculiar in having the wrist-bones elongated so as to form a 

 sort of arm, at the juncture of which with the body the gills open. Ma- 

 rine fishes. 



