FISHES. fill 



Sirngnathns acus.—lt'he Groat Pipe Fish. Plate Iv. fip. 7. Descrilu'd, 

 vol. iii. p. 5"il. 



Hippocampus foliaCus.— The Australian Hippocampus. Plate Iv. fi?. 

 a Body somewhat heptagonal, with foliated appendages on the head, 

 neck, back, tail, and breast; fawn coloured, ppeckled with grayish-wliife ; 

 fins soft and transparent. Ten inches long. Inhabits the Australian coast 



Pegasus Draco.— The Dragon Pegasus. Plate Iv. fig. 9. Breast some- 

 what quadrangular, with several radiated bony plates ; each side of the ab- 

 domen with a lengthened cirrus ; tail long, narrow, enveloped in a case of 

 eight scaly annulations ; pectoral fins large, with the margins scalloped. 

 Four inches long. Inhabits the Indian seas. 



ORDER VI.— IMALACOPTERYGII ABDOMINALIS. 



With a bony skeleton ; jaws complete ; pectinated branchiae ; rays of 

 the fins soft, with the exception of the first rays of the dorsal or pectoral 

 fins, which are sometimes hard ; ventral fins placed far behind on the ab. 

 doraen. 



This order contains sixty-nine genera, namely :— 



TRIBE I. SALJIONIDES. 



1. Galmo ; 2. Osmerus; 3. Coregonus ; i. Argentina ; 5. Curimata ; fi. Anas, 

 toraus ; 7, Scrrasalmus ; 8. Piabucus ; 9. Tetragonopterus ; 10. Myletes ; II. 

 Hydrocynus; 12. Citharinus; 13. Saurus ; U. Scopelus ; 15. Aulopus; 16 

 Gasteropelecus ; 17. Sternoptix. 



TRIBE II. — CLUPEiE. 



18. Clapea ; 19. Megalops ; 20. Engraulis ; 21. Thrissa ; 22. Pristigaster ; 21. 

 Notopterus ; 25. Elops ; 26. Chirocentrus ; 27. Erylhrinus ; 28. Amia ; 29. 

 Sudis; 30. Lepisosteus ; 31. Polypterua. 



TRIBE III. E.SOCES. 



32. Esox ; 33. Galaxias ; 3i. Microstoma ; 35. Stomias ; 36. Chauliodiis ; 37. 

 Salanx ; 38. Belone ; 39. Scomberesox ; 40. Hemiramphus ; 41. Exocetus ; 42. 

 Mormyrus. 



TRIBE IV. — CYPRINID.a:. 



43- Cyprinus ; 44. Barbus ; 45. Gobio ; 46. Tinea ; 47. Cirrhinus; 48. Abra- 

 niis ; 49. Labeo ; .50. Leuciscus ; 51. Gonorhynchus ; 52. Cobitis ; .53. Ana- 

 tleps ; i>i. Poecilia ; 05. Lebias ; 56. Cyprinodon. 



TRIBE V. SILURID.*:. 



57. Silurus; 58. Scnilbe ; 59. Synodontis ; 60. Pimelodus; 61. Bagrus ; 6i 

 Ageneiorus ; 63. Doras; 64. Macropterouotus ; 65. Plotosus ; 66. Callichtys ; 

 67. Malapterurus ; 68. Platystacus ; 69. Hypostomus : of which we have 

 figured the following species. 



Serrasabnus rhombeus. — The Rhombic Salmon. Plate Ivii. fig. 7. 

 Dull-red above, with some irregular dusky spots ; sides and abdomen silvery- 

 white, the latter carinated and serrated ; tail luniform, with a black fillet at 

 its edge ; a three-spiked spine placed before the dorsal fin. Inhabits the 

 rivers of Surinam. 



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