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ACTIXOPTERTGir. 
Widely distributed mariue fishes, almost unknown among fossils. 
A figure of the skeleton of the existing Trigla is given by Agassiz, 
Poiss. Foss. vol. iv. pi. F. 
There appear to be no remains of members of this family among 
the fossils in the Collection, but various fragments of supposed 
extinct species of Trigla have been named as follows :— 
Trigla infausta, J. J. Heckel, Denkschr. k. Akad. Wiss., math.- 
naturw. Cl. vol. xix. (1861), pt. i. p. 70, pi. ix. fig. 9.— 
Middle Miocene (Leithakalk); Vienna. [Imperfect head 
and abdominal region.] 
Trigla licatce^ H. E. Sauvage, Ann. Sci. Xat. [5] vol. xiv. (1870), 
art. no. 7, p. 12, and Ann. Sci. Geol. vol. iv. (1873), 
art. no. 1, p. Ill, fig. 1, and ibid. vol. xi. (1880), 
art. no. 3, p. 21, fig. 8.—Upper Miocene; Licata. [Im¬ 
perfect fish.] 
Trigla nardii, de Bosniaski, Atti Soc. Tosc. Sci. jS'at.—Proc.-Yerb. 
i. (1878), p. xix (name only).— Upper Miocene; 
Tuscany. 
75** ^ 7”^^ Tidgla sirtionellii^ I. Bonomi, Bivista Ital. Paleont. vol. ii. (1896), 
p. 234, pi. V. fig. 10.—Upper Miocene; Mondaino, Prov. 
Forli, Italy. [Fragmentary small fish, indeterminable.] 
Fragments of ornamented bones more or less resembling those of 
Triglidae have also received the following names:— 
Dactylopterus pliocenicus, B. Lawley, N'uovi Studi Pesci, etc., 
CoBine Toscane (1876), p. 61.—Lower Pliocene; Orciano, 
Tuscany. [Undescribed, but bones said to be perfectly 
identical with those of existing D. volitansJ] 
Peristedion urcianensis^ B. Lawley, ibid. p. 63.—Ibid, 
Trigloides alata, B. Lawley, ibid. p. 63. — Upper Miocene; 
Gabbro, Tuscany. 
Trigloides dejardini, P. J. Van Beneden, Bull. Acad. Boy. Belg. 
[2] vol. xxxi. (1871), p. 501, pi. ii. figs. 9, 11 {non 
fig. 13) ; B. Lawley, op. cit. 1876, p. 62^-Lower Plio¬ 
cene ; Belgium and Tuscany. [Type species of so-called 
Trigloides.^ 
Trigloides insignis, B. Lawley, op. cit. 1876, p. 62.—Lower 
Pliocene ; Volterrano, Tuscany. 
Trigloides van benedensis^ B. Lawley, ibid. p. 62. — Lower 
Pliocene; S. Luce, near Orciano. 
Otoliths from the Lower Tertiary of the Jackson Biver, Missis- 
