SCORP^NID^. SCOBP^NINiE. 



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process^ or detached ray at the base ; dorsal fin either 

 entire or slightly cleft ; two strong spines on the gills, 

 one on the suborbital, the other on the preopercule ; 

 scales small or none ; palate furnished with teeth. 



Pterichthys Sw. Pectorals very long, reaching to the 

 base of the caudal^, with a detached ray at the base, 

 and. a cirrus on the lower jaw. 



P. carinatus. Cuv. iv. p. 395. Israelitorum. Cuv. iv. p. 396. 

 alatus. Russ. No. 160. B. 



Apistes Cuv. (Also Minous Cuv.) Pectoral fins mode- 

 rately longj . with a lengthened, detached ray at the 

 base ; scales very small or none ; spines on the oper- 

 culum very strong, and with others elevated before 

 the orbits ; ventral fin with the rays simple, the three 

 first not thickened or lengthened ; dorsal fin either 

 entire or cleft, the anterior division shortest, 

 monodactylus. Cuv. pi. 95. 2. Russellii. Russ. pi. 160. a. * 



Platypterus Sw. Dorsal fin very high or broad, undi- 

 vided, commencing between the eyes, and uniting by 

 a membrane to the caudal fin ; pectoral fins pointed, 

 moderate, and without any detached ray ; head very 

 obtuse, truncate, the front almost vertical ; mouth 

 opening obliquely or subvertical j scales very minute ; 

 caudal rounded, t 



taenianotus. Cuv. Lac. iv. longispinis. lb. iv. 408. 



pi. 3. fig. 2. Bourgomvillii. lb, iv. 411. 



fusco-virens ? lb. iv. 409. 



Trichosomus Sw. Dorsal fins two, the first of three spi- 

 nous rays, widely separated from the second ; mouth 

 oblique or subvertical ; lower jaw longest ; pectorals 

 as in the last ; anal with three strong spiny rays. 



trachinoides. Cuv. pi. 92. 1. dracsena. Cuv. iv. p. 403. 

 Gymnapistes Sw. Body generally naked, shaped as in 



* This species, by its undivided dorsal, connects Apistes to Platypterus. 



f Cuvier observes that the caudal, as represented by Lacepede, is incor- 

 rect, having been injured in the original. "When perfect it is rhomboid, 

 or, in other words, rounded. 



