CANTHILEPTES. LEPIDOLEPRIDiE. TBIGLID^. 



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Tribe IV. CANTHILEPTES. Mailed-cheeks, 



Head and cheeks mailed, or armed with detached spines ; 

 scales rough or prickly ; branchial aperture contracted ; 

 pectorals often very large ; operculum spinous ; lateral 

 line generally prominent^, and often spinous. 



Family 1. LEPIDOLEPRID^. Riband Gurnards. 



Body anguilliform, sword-shaped, very thin, covered 

 with osseous scales, rough, and beset with small acute 

 spines ; head depressed, mailed ; dorsal fins two, the 

 first small, the second long, and united with the anal 

 and caudal, which forms a point ; ventral fins small. 



Lepidosoma Risso. Snout considerably prolonged, end- 

 ing in a triangular point ; mouth large, placed be- 

 neath, as in Trigla ; jaws with several rows of very 

 fine curved sharp teeth; dorsal fins approximating, 

 and of equal height; ventral fins very narrow and 

 slender, the first ray prolonged into a filament. 

 Lepidosoma trachyrynchus. Risso, Ichth. 197. pi. 7. fig. 21. 



OxYCEPHAS Raf. Muzzle not prolonged over the 

 mouth ; the first dorsal fin high and triangular ; the 

 second shorter than the anal ; ventral fins small, 

 short ; lower jaw with or without cirri. 



O. coelorhinchus. Riss. Scabrus. Raff. Carat, p. 31. 



Ich.200.pl. 7. fig. 22.* 



Family 2. TRIGLIDiE. Gurnards. 



Head covered with bony plates, resembling armour, and 

 defended with large spinal processes ; scales rough or 

 cuspidate, or prickly ; caudal fin generally lunate ; dis- 

 tinct finger-like processes generally placed at the base 

 of the pectorals ; pectoral fins mostly very large. 



Trigla. The digitated processes free and detached ; 



* Differs from the 0. Rupestris of Bloch, by having, according to Rafi- 

 nesque, the caudal fin emarginate. 



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