DETAILED ANALOGY OF APISTES. 



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a single genus^ there are not representations of all the 

 families, and other circular groups in this and the other 

 tribes of the class Pisces. For this purpose^ we have 

 here placed some of the species of our learned author's 

 Apistes opposite to the primary groups in which we 

 have distributed the family : these types we propose to 

 distinguish as sub-genera. 



Analogies of apistes and scorp^na. 



Sub-genera of 



Apistes. 



Apistes Cuv. 

 Pterijcthys Sw. 

 Piaiypterus Sw 



Types as 



described by 



Cuvier. 



A. monodactylus. 



A. alatus. 



A. tsnianotus. 



Analogies. 



Divisions of the 



SCORP^ENID^. 



r Typical; pectoral fins'J 



> moderate; scales very r^pjg^^g (,^^^ 



^ small or none; headC 



(. very spiny. 3 



r Pectoral fins consi- ^ 



< derably lengthened ; > Pterois Cuv. 



(_ scales distinct J 



'Dorsal fin very high, 

 undivided, and ex- 

 tending the whole 

 length of the back. 



f Mouth sub-vertical ; ■} 



T^NiANOTUS Cuv. 



Trichosoma Sw. A. trichonoides. 



Gymnapisies Sw. C. marmoratus. 



\ 



Sebastes Cuv. 



) dorsal fins two, the 

 first short, the second 

 long and narrow. } 



rDorsal fin emarginatedT 



^ beyond the middle; J- ScoRPiENA Lin. 



L body naked. j 



(Jo6.^ If any thing further were necessary to illus- 

 trate these most extraordinary coincidences, it would be 

 the testimony of M. Cuvier himself; this testimony, as 

 collateral evidence, may be called conclusive ; because it 

 is not given in support of any particular theory, but 

 merely from his own perception of the resemblances 

 which his species bear to other genera, and in con- 

 formity with which he gives each of them a specific 

 name expressive of those resemblances. Now, it will 

 be remembered, that the divisions of the Scorpcencs cor- 

 respond to those in which we have divided the whole 

 of this tribe. That this symbolical relationship should 

 be brought before the reader at a single glance, Ave shall 

 now place all these gTOups, and several others equally 

 analogous, in one table. 



