330 CLASSIFICATION OF FISHES_, ETC. 



body oblongj hard^ divided into small angular com- 

 partments ; connecting this group with the Ostracinse. 

 C. oblongus. BL Sch. pi. 97. 



Family 2. CHIRONECTID^. Frog-fish. 



Body naked, thick, heavy, generally compressed, some- 

 times tuberculated, but always destitute of scales _; eyes 

 small, generally vertical, or placed near the crown ; 

 mouth vertical, the lower jaw longest ; branchial spi- 

 racle single^ placed close to the pectoral ; head generally 

 with detached rays, or horn-like processes ; pectoral 

 fins pedunculated, capable of being used as feet ; dorsal 

 fin either divided or entire. 



Chironectus. Cuv. Body naked, compressed ; mouth 

 vertical. 

 C. Histrio. Bloch, 111. pictus. Shaw, Ichth. ii. pi. 165. 



Family 3. LOPHIDiE. 



Head enormous, nearly flattened, often spiny or tuber- 

 culated ; body depressed, sometimes with pores, but 

 never with scales ; tail small, compressed ; mouth often 

 very wide, placed beneath the snout, and cleft horizon- 

 tally ; pectorals pedunculated. 



Malthe Cuv. Head with a horn-like process on the 

 snout, pointing forwards ; mouth small, slightly 

 retractile ; hinder part of the head and the body very 

 broad and depressed, studded with scattered tubercles. 



M. nasuta. Bloch, pi. 110. (Vol. I. p. 9. fig. 1.) 



LoPHius Linn. The whole of the head and body 

 excessively broad, sometimes nearly orbicular ; head 

 enormously large, more or less spinous, and furnished 

 with cirri and long detached moveable rays ; dorsal 

 fins two j mouth very large, transverse, Avith acute 

 teeth ; eyes vertical ; tail short, compressed. 

 L. piscatorius Linn. Bl. 87. 



