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FISHES. 
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Family 38. — MUGILIDiE. (3 Genera, 78 Species.) 
“ Fresh-water and marine fishes, with oblong compressed 
bodies, cycloid scales, and small mouths, often without teeth.” 
Distribution. — Coasts and fresh waters of all temperate and 
tropical regions. 
Mugil (66 sp.) is mostly marine, and is very widely distri- 
buted ; several species (Grey Mullets) occur on the British 
coasts. Agonostoma (9 sp.) is confined to the fresh waters of 
the West Indies, Central America, Hew Zealand, Australia, 
Celebes, and the Comoro Islands. Myxus (3 sp.) is marine, and 
occurs both in the Atlantic and Pacific. 
Family 39. — OPHIOCEPHALIDiE. (2 Genera, 26 Species.) 
“Fresh- water fishes, with elongate subeylindrical scaled bodies; 
often leaving the water for a considerable time.” 
Distribution. — Rivers of the Oriental region: — India, Ceylon, 
China, Malay Islands to Philippines and Borneo. 
Family 40. — TRICHONOTIDZE, (2 Genera, 2 Species.) 
“ Marine carnivorous fishes, with elongate subeylindrical 
bodies, cycloid scales, and eyes directed upwards.” 
Distribution.— -Coasts of Celebes, Ceram, and New Zealand. 
Family 41.— CEPOLIDZE. (1 Genus, 7 Species.) 
" Marine fishes, with very long, compressed, band-like bodies, 
covered with small cycloid scales.” 
Distribution.— Temperate seas of Western Europe and East- 
ern Asia, and one species in the Malayan Seas. 
Cepola rubescens (the Band fish) ranges from Scotland to the 
Mediterranean. All the other species but one are from Japan, 
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