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Mdlacanthus Cuv, Resembling in shape Zy rich thy s^ 

 but the body is more elongated ; spiny rays of the 

 dorsal very few ; tail lunate : the anguilllform type. 

 M. Plumierii. Lacep. iv. pi. 8. fig. L 



Crassilabrus Sw. General form of Urichthys, but the 

 mouth is oblique, and the lips excessively thick ; 

 eyes very small ; ventral fins shorty and scarcely 

 pointed ; dorsal and anal fins without any scales at 

 their base ; the simple rays slender and flexible ; 

 caudal fin small^ rounded, the margin entire ; fore- 

 head abruptly gibbous : the chircnectiform type ; 

 representing Lobates, Astronotus, &c. 



C. undulatus. Riipp. Atl. pi. 6. fig. 2. 



ScARus Linn. Dorsal fin continuous, entirely com- 

 posed of soft ray_s ; body ovate, with the head gibbous 

 or elevated; mouth small; jaws (^fiy. 67./) large, 

 bony, assuming the form and office of teeth, as in the 

 Plectognathes, but the true teeth are very small, and 

 arranged like scales or tubercles upon them ; lips thick, 

 fleshy, but single. 



Scarus Antiq., Linn. (^fiy. .58.) Head large, gibbous; 

 crown ele- 



vated; cau- 

 dal lunate; 

 pectoral fins 

 pointed; la- 

 teral line 

 continuous; 



scales with radiated grooves, (a.) European seas. 

 S. Cretensis. Bl. pi. 220. 

 Calliodon Cuv. Alouth obliquely vertical ; profile 

 obtuse ; eyes very large, near the crown ; belly 

 prominent ; mouth retractile, distinct, and separate ; 

 lateral teeth in the upper jaw with an inner range 

 of smaller ones ; pectoral and caudal rounded ; all 

 the fin rays soft ; ventrals very small ; lateral line 

 branched: the chironectiform type. 



C. spinidens. Quoy and Gaim. p. 2 39. 

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