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POMACENTEID^. 
“ Body compressed, more or less short, covered with, 
ctenoid scales. Dentition feeble ; palate smooth. The 
lateral line does not extend to the caudal fin, or it is 
interrupted. One dorsal fin, with the spinous as 
well developed as the soft, or more. Two, some- 
times three, anal spines; the soft anal similar to the 
soft dorsal. Ventral fins thoracic, with one spine 
and five soft rays. Branchiostegals five, six, or 
seven ; gills three and a half ; pseudobranchias and 
air-bladder present. Pyloric appendages in small 
number. Intestinal tract of moderate length. Tro- 
pical seas.” 
aLTPHISODON. 
Grenus formed by Lacepede, but mucb better characterised by 
Cuvier. Dr. Grunther changes the name in GlypJiidodon ; but I 
do not think that these so-called rectifications can be admitted. 
OLTPHISODOX TICTOEIJi). 
Grlyphisodon victorise, Gunther, An. and Mag. Nat. History, 
V. ii., 1862, p. 116. 
The height of the body is contained twice in the length, up to 
the end of the dorsal, and two and one-half in the total length. 
The head is four times in the same ; the orbit is three and one- 
third in the length of the head, and it is not quite as long as the 
snout ; teeth small, rather regularly placed ; they are elongate 
and rather broader in the middle than at their extremity, which 
is rounded ; the head is covered with scales, those of the oper- 
culum small, on six rows ; a denudated space round the margin, 
covered with reticulations, which are transverse on the poste- 
