CEPOLID^, 213 



Family, XXII— CEPOLID^, Bleeher. 



BrancMostegals six: pseudobranchisB present. Body elongated, low, and 

 compressed. Eyes large and lateral. No bony articulation between the infra- 

 orbital bones and the angle of the preoperole. Gill-openings wide, the membranes 

 being scarcely united under the throat. Teeth in the jaws of medium size and 

 pointed. A long spineless dorsal and anal fin, more or less continuous with the 

 caudal. Ventral thoracic, with one spine and five rays. Scales cycloid, small. 

 Pyloric appendages few. 



Genus I. — Cepola, Linnceus. 



Acanihocepola, Bleeker. 



Head ohtuse. Cleft of mouth ohlique, its gape wide. Preoperole more or less 

 armed. Palate edentulous. Air-hladder large. 



Bleeker instituted GenuS AoantJiocepola for those forms ■wbich have scales on 

 tlie head, the preoperole denticulated or spinate, and the body covered with 

 imbricate scales. 



Marine forms, which on the British coast vary in their rarity, mostly scarce 

 but in some years pretty numerous. 



Geographical distribution. — Prom the seas of temperate Europe through those 

 of India to China and Japan. 



1. Cepola rubescens, Plate LXII. 



Serpens rubescens, Eondel. xiv, c. 8, p. 410 ; Gesner, p. 863; WiUughby, p. 118, 

 c. 13. Myrus alter, Aldrov. iii, c. 28, p. 367 ; Joust, t. v, f . 5. Taenia rubra. 

 Will. p. 117 ; Ray, Syn. p. 71. Tmnia, no. 3, Artedi, Synon. p. 115. Bed band^ 

 fish, Pennant, Brit. Zool. (Ed. 1812) iii, p. 285. 



Cepola rubescens, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 445 ; Bl. Sohn. p. 241 ; Gmel. Linn, 

 p. 1187; Montagu, Trans. Linn. Soc. vii, p. 291, pi. xvii; Bonn. Enc. Ich. p. 57, 

 pi. xxxiii, fig. 122 ; Shaw, Zool. iv, p. 190 ; Walb. Artedi, iii, p. 117 ; Briinn. Ich. 

 Mass. p. 28 ; Donovan, Brit. Eish. v, pi. ov ; Turton, Brit. Eauna, p. .94 ; Risso, 

 Ich. Nice, p. 164, and Europ. Merid. iii, p. 294 ; Tarrell, Brit. Eish. (Ed. 1) i, 

 p. 195, c. fig. (Ed. 2) i, p. 224 (Ed. 3) ii, p. 305 ; Elem. Brit. An. p. 204 ; 

 Thompson, M. N. H. (2) 1838, ii, p. 214, and Nat. Hist. Ireland, iv, p. 97 ; Couch, 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv, p. 7Q ; Cuv. and Val. x, p. 388, pi. ccc ; Harvey, P. Z. S. 

 1838, p. 45 ; Swainson, Fishes, ii, p. 259 ; Jenyns, Man. p. 374 ; Guichen. Expl. 

 Alger. Poiss. p. 65 ; White, Catal. p. 54 ; Giinther, Catal. iii, p. 486 ; Steind. Ich. 

 Span. u. Port. 1868, p. 19 ; Canestr. Faun. Ital. p. 192 ; GiglioK, Peso. Ital. p. 33 ; 

 Moreau, Poiss. France, ii, p. 552, c. fig. 



Cepola tcenia, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 445 ; Bl. v, p. 103, pi. clxx ; Bl. Schn. 

 p. 241 ; Shaw, Zool. iv, p. 187, pi. sxvi ; Lacep. ii, p. 526 ; Walb. Artedi, iii, 

 p. 117 ; Risso, Ich. Nice, p. 153. 



Cepola serpentiformis, Lacep. ii, p. 529. 



Cepola longicauda, Swain. Fishes, ii, p. 399. 



Bed snake-fish. Couch, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv, p. '76. 



Bed band-fish, Couch, Fish. Brit. Isles, ii, p. 262, pi. cxx. 



