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SCANDINAVIAN FISHES. 
Genus SCX^NA. 
No barbels on the chin , which does not project beyond the snout; no distinctly developed canine teeth on the jaws; 
no scales on the dorsal fins. The lower pliaryngeals not 
Distinguished by Aktedi " under a limitation so 
wide as to correspond very nearly to the Scisenoid family 
of our times, this genus now includes only those spe- 
cies which agree with the characters, chiefly negative 
ones, which are given above and are the expression of 
the most typical generic form in the family. About 
50 known species range themselves under these cha- 
racters. The genus is spread over the Old World and 
the New, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific. Its clas- 
united. Preoperculum dentated. Pseudobranchice distinct. 
sical name ( Zxicuva in Aristotle, umbra in Ovid, 
Columella and, at a later time, 1554, in Salvianus; 
ombrina among the Romans of the present day) means 
‘ sliadow-fisli b , but is difficult to explain, as the accounts 
of this genus given by the ancients are very meagre. 
In India, where these fishes are an important article of 
food and where, according to Day c , their air-bladder 
is made into isinglass and exported to China, they 
are called Bola in Bengali. 
THE MAIGRE (sw. hafgosen). 
SCI/ENA AQU1LA. 
Fig. 13. 
Second ray of the anal fin from 2 / 3 to V 3 of the first soft ray in length and of about the same thickness as the 
latter. Number of branched rays in the second dorsal fin from 26 to 28. Diameter of the eye from 1 / 6 to 1 /fi 
of the length of the head. Colour of the body silver-ivhite , darker on the back. An indistinct, blackish gray 
spot on the operculum. 
Fig. 13. Maigre ( Scicena aquila) from the Mediterranean. 2 / 3 of the natural size. 
R. hr. 7; D. 10 
1 
26— 28 e 
9 / 
A r F ■ 
C. x + 15 + x\ L. lat. 50 — 55 h . 
15*; V. >/ 5 ; 
Syn: Maigre, Duhamel, Pe'ch., part. 2 (vol. Ill), sect. 6, p. 137, 
tab. 1 fig. 3. 
a Gen. Pise., p. 38. 
6 Cf. Cuv., Val., Hist. Nat. d. Poiss., V, pp. 12 etc. 
c Fish. Gt. Brit., Irel., pt. I, p. 149. 
d In young specimens 3 / n , according to Steindachner, Ichth. Reis. Sp. Port., Stzgber. Akad. Wien, Mat. Naturv. Cl. 1867, Bd. 56, I, p. 640. 
e 29, according to Day, 1. c. 
f Sometimes, but seldom — , according to Moreau, Hist. Nat. Poiss. Fr ., II, p. 401. 
8 
s' P. 19, according to Lilljeborg, 1. c. 
h Excluding the scales of the caudal fin. 
