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CLASSIFICATION OF FISHES^ ETC. 



lobes rounded ; ven- 

 trals nearly as large 

 as the pectorals. 



■fasciatus. Cuv. pi. 134. 

 marginatus. Rupp. 

 (^^•54.) 



emarginatus. Less. Atl. 



pi. 28. fig. 1. 

 tffiniops. lb. fig. 2. 



Scolopsides Cuv. Body oblong, fusiform ; sub-orbital 

 plate turned backward, and finely serrated ; mouth 

 small, retractile ; teeth small, even, and slightly 

 incurved ; dorsal fin emarginate ; caudal forked ; 

 eyes large ; operculum with an obtuse spine, but not 

 crenated. 



S. lycogenis. Cuv. pi. 127. 



Cheilodactylus Cuv. Ovate, the upper profile more arched 

 than the lower ; eyes placed high up towards the 

 crown ; mouth small ; dorsal fin slightly emarginate 

 in the middle; the spines small; jaws retractile; 

 caudal forked ; pectoral fins angulated ; one of the 

 lower rays much longer than the others ; analogous to 

 Equula. 

 C. zonatus. Cuv. pi. 129. earponemus. Cuv. pi. 128. 



Plectorynchus Lac. Body ovate-oblong; head generally 

 thick, obtuse ; dorsal fin emarginate, the hinder por- 

 tion and the anal, which is short, covered with scales 

 at their base ; ventral fin about the size of the 

 pectoral; caudal either lengthened and greatly rounded, 

 or lunated. 



* Caudal lengthened, rounded. * * Caudal slightly lunated. 

 D. Orientale. Cuv. pi. 124. Lessonii. Less. Atl. pi. 24. 



Pristopoma Cuv.* Ovate-oblong; fins as in the last, 



* M. Cuvier remarks, that this genus has " no scales on the dorsal and 

 anal fins : " and yet, in the very species he figures as the type, these scales 

 are as conspicuous as in Dtagramma. Not having yet analysed these 

 genera, I have for the present adopted most of these divisions of the 

 Sccenina ; but they all seem to require a complete revision, and their 

 characters drawn out with greater accuracy and precision. 



