SPINY-FINNED FISHES. 55 
which have these fins very large, and several long 
supplementary rays in front of them. 
The following seventeen Families of Acanthop- 
terygian Fishes are enumerated in the synopsis of 
the Prince of Canino, who gives the affixed num- 
ber of species known (in 1831 ) to belong to each. 
SP. 
1 Percadse 483 
2 Sphyrsenadse . ..... 15 
3 Mullidae 42 
4 Triglad^ 164 
5 Sciaenadas 231 
6 Sparidae 158 
7 Maenadae 43 
8 Chaetodontidae .... 157 
9 Scombridae 262 
SP. 
10 CepoladaB 
. 14 
1 1 Teuthididae . . . . V 
. 60 
12 Ophiocephalidae . . . 
. 40 
13 Mugilidae 
,. 52 
14 Gobiadae 
.. 173 
15 Lophiadae 
,0 40 
1 6 Labridae 
. 283 
17 Fistulariadae 
,. 15 
Total 2232 
