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Body long, rather slender or tapering from spinous dorsal forward 
and backwarlfefllittle or slightly compressed. H-ead elongate, with conic con¬ 
tour and forehead 
:sed. Byes lateral or directed little upward, nearly 
median. Mouth small, tenffl®al, cleft, short. Premaxillaries protractile. 
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Teeth small, in jaws and on ^jff'.ont of vomer, none on palatines. Preopsrcle 
entire or crenulated, bentjli cover under surface of head. Opercle small, 
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with short spine. Gill ggsning wide. Pseudobranchiae present. Branchio- 
: "f; 
stegals 6. Stomach espial. Pyloric appendages few. Air bladder simple. 
Skull with mucous,^Pvities. Vertebrae 34 to 43, of which 22 to 27 caudal. 
Scales small, jpenoid. Lateral line ccmplete to caudal base or little beyond. 
• ir‘u, 
nearly str%|§jr».t. Dorsals 2, first short and second with long base. Anal with 
1 or 2 sjpil spines, like soft dorsal. Caudal anarginate, lobes rounded. 
Pectoral normal. Ventrals with spine and 5 rays, thoracic, nearly scaleless. 
Shore fishes of small or moderate size, living in the Indo-Pacific 
and vail*, as food. In several respects they approach the Sciaenidae. The 
rather few s 
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ywere listed and their generic divisions best determined by 
Gill in 1881. These rmodif icati cn, are followed in the 
present work. 
Star, 
■ SI 
Analysis of genera 
c 
a^y Sillaginae. Snout conic; teeth uni^gjply small; dorsal 
. 1 -• 
spines 10 to 12, moderate. 
■\y ^3^ . r ,, 
£7 b4 Scales moderately small, 5Q;flb 80; dorsal spines 10 or 
p'^'N . _ 
5^0 ■*%, mm 1 
< 11; soft dorsal and Sana 1 f|ib equal 
2 
fcf by. Scales very small, about 
dorsal much longer t.han anal 
SillagCft 
m 
feillaginode^ t 
C y ^Sillaginopsinae. Snp ut depressed; outer teeth in front en¬ 
larged; scales pm®,ll, |about 90; dorsal spines 9, second c 
elongated __ ' ' ' 4 ’■‘Sill sginopsis^ 
