60 
actinoptehygii. 
II. 
No inner crushing teeth ; a few stout conical 
teeth 
Teeth absent; parietal bones small and sepal- 
ated by supraoccipital ; a scaly lamella at 
the base of each lobe of the tail .... 
Teeth absent; no scaly lamella at the base of 
the tail 
Dorsal tin more or less extended, 
runk deepened; jaws toothless; dorsal fin in 
hinder half of back 
Trunk elongated ; minute teeth in single series 
on margin of jaws, stouter teeth within ; 
aorsal fin occupying greater part of back . 
clut' 4 ' niar °’ md apparently 
Chanoides (p. 63). 
C’hanos (p. 64). 
Prochanos (p- 65). 
Ancylostylos (p- 66)- 
Istieus (p. 66). 
Anogmius (p. 71)' 
Genus ALBULA (Gronow), Bloch & Schneider. 
[Syst. Ichthyol. 1801, p. 432.] 
Syn. Butyrinus, B. G. E. de Lacdpede, Hist. Nat. Poise, vol. v. 1803, 
p. 45. 
Glossodus, Cuvier, in Agassiz and Spix, Pise. Brasil. 1829, p. * 8 ‘ 
1 'Modus, R. Owen (ear Agassiz, MS.), Odontogr. 1845, p. 1» 8 - 
Trunk somewhat laterally compressed, and abdomen flattened. 
° U P01I ' tl ' fi ; and raouth not quite terminal ; dentary, premoxifla- 
er, and palatines with clusters of minute pointed teeth; P» ra ' 
. • i . ’ ellto Pterygoid, and tongue each with a patch of comp ara 
('ill l i arS °l Cl ° 80ly ' arranged tritoral teeth; maxilla toothless- 
numbfi 6rs * hort and tubercular; branchiostegal rays about 14 ] n 
JTi": 1 Urtcbrac in thc type species 43 in the abdominal, 25 * 
based U ) ^ re ° 1 ? - Pcdvio dns opposed to the dorsal, which is short 
Seal ’ f T 6 ° r than the anal ; caudal fin deeply forked- 
Scales of moderate size, not pectinated. 
tr • 6 , SbeC ' CS °* tb ’ s ” unua survives in nearly all tropical and sub- 
«“ '>““1 '> well described ai 
0885? » LI' ***« i ""' ll 'P- D.S.Oommis.. Fisheries, 1883 
U 85) , p - 808 > P 1 - pl. Xiii. figs. 30, 31. 
Albula oweni (Owen). 
[Piate IV.] 
^ ^(namifonly^ "' 1 ’ L ' Agasslz ’ Poiss - Foss - vol. «• P 1 - iL r ' 
1854. Odontogr. p. 138, pl. xlvii. fig- 3 - 
R Coll ’ R ' 0wen > Gat. Foss. Rept. & Pisces Mu-- 
• ^ 0U * burgeons, p. 167 # 1 
