SEA-BREAMS. 
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The black sea-bream (Cantharus lineatus), of the British seas. 
Cantharus ' ’' 
may be cited as a well-known example of the typical genus of the 
first subfamily, in which the extremities of the jaws are furnished with broad, cutting, 
and occasionally lobate incisor-like teeth; while there are no vomerine or molariform 
teeth, and the lower rays of the pectoral fins are branched. Other well-known 
genera are Box and Scatharus from the Mediterranean and Eastern Atlantic, and 
Crenidens from the Indian seas. The black sea-bream, which not unfrequently 
SARGO AND GILT-HEAD (J nat. size). 
crows to a length of 15 inches, is common on the British coasts, where it will take 
both vegetable and animal baits. 
Haplodactylus. 
The second group is represented by Haplodactylus , from the 
temperate South Pacific, in which both jaws are furnished with flat 
and generally tricuspid teeth; vomerine teeth being present, but molars wanting; 
while the lower pectoral rays are simple. These fish are vegetable-feeders. 
Better known than the last is the third group, containing only 
the single genus Sargus, with some twenty species from the Mediter- 
Sargus. 
