GENERA PISCIUM. 



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O R D O I. 



MALACOPTERYGIL 



/. STNGNATHUS. 



Opercuta Branchiarum ex unica tenui lamella oflea 

 utrinque eonftantia. 



Membrana Branchio/Iega 



Caput oblongum, cathetoplateum: Maxilloe a lateri- 



bus claufe & OS in extremitate roftri tantummodo 



apertum. 



Corpus longumck admodum gracile, ambitu plerumque 



angulato , interdum fubrotundo : jam tetfapterygium, 



jam monopterygium (*). 



SPE- 



Additamentum. 

 (*) Chara&er generis Syngnathi. 



Ltnnjei : Roftrum fubcylindricum; ore opercnlato, 



maxilia inferiore: Apertura branchiarum operculis claufis; 



Artedi Genera. A nucha 



