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ORDEE OF ABDOMINAL SOFT-FINNED FISHES. 

 MALACOPTERYGII * ABDOMINALES. 



This division is composed of osseous fishes that 

 have the upper jaw moveable : simple pectinate gills, 

 and the fin-rays soft and flexible ; their ventral fins 

 are suspended behind the pectorals, as though they 

 were attached to the abdomen, whence the name of 

 the Order. 



They may be divided as in the following Table : 



< Q 



i| pN 



Sd oaS 



Si* o a ^^ 



131 111?! 2Sf 



3 C 5 SB ^ &; -S ^ cs 



^O 03 ^ -^iJDcStn 



_ C >-> ^, Q S3 ^ 



6 PH^3 ^ C ^ b 



* 2 ST^ .-? <-! r* C rii 



|j 

 *S 

 -2 



^H 

 *> 



3 



s, malacos, soft ; irr^pvyiov, pterygion, a Jin. 



