252 CLASSIFICATIOX OF FISHES^ ETC. 



as long as the pectoral, and placed immediately on 

 the throat ; caudal small ; representing Trachinotus, 

 Psenes^ and the CorvphsenEe. 



A. stromateus. Cuv. pi. 238. 



Zeus Linn. Body hispid^ either with spines or rough 

 and hard scales ; caudal fin rounded ; dorsal fins two. 



Zeus. Body oval^ with small distinct scales^ and a 

 row of prickles at the hase of the dorsal and anal fins^ 

 and on the ridge of the helly ; other spines on the 

 gills j head very large ; the eyes close to the crown ; 

 mouth large^ very protractile ; pectoral small, round ; 

 ventral large ; dorsal rays often ending in long fila- 

 ments. 

 Zeus faber Linn. Yarr. i. 162. pungio. Cuv. pi. 280. 



Capros Lac. Scales hard, and strongly ciliated on their 

 margins ; dorsal fins united ; the rays of the first 

 dorsal, and of the anal and ventral, are very strong ; 

 eyes very large ; mouth as in Equula, and very pro- 

 tractile ; preopercule finely serrated.* 

 C. aper Lac. Cuv. pi. 281. 



Family 3. CORYPH^NID^. 



Body greatly compressed, elongated; scales minute or 

 none ; dorsal fin long, single, with nearly all the rays soft ; 

 snout obtuse, prominent; the jaws not protractile; mouth 

 small, generally placed beneath the snout ; ventral fins 

 always small, and sometimes wanting. 



1. ScBFAM. CORYPH^NIN.E, 

 Body oblong, slender, covered with small scales ; head 

 large ; crown gibbous ; pectoral fins falcate ; eyes close 

 to the angle of the mouth. 



CoRYPH^XA Linn. Ventral fins larger than the pectorals, 

 hippuris. Cuv. pi. 266. C. siculus Siv. Cuv. 268. 



Lampugus Cuv. Ventral fins equal to the pectorals. 

 L. equisetis. Cuv. 267. immaculata, Spix. pi. 56. 



* The affinity of this type to Equula is sufficiently obvious ; it might, in- 

 deed, be placed under that genus, next to Hamiltonia, were it not for its 

 stronger affinity, if possible, to Zeus. 



