BLENNIID^.-GADID^. 
597 
cvi. (1891), p. 113, pi. ill. fig. 3 .— Upper Miocene; Dolje, 
Croatia. [Imperfect fish; Geological Museum, University 
of Agram.] 
Climis graciUs, F. Steindachner, Sitzungsb.k. Akad.-Wiss,, math.- 
naturw. Ch vol. xxxvii. (1859), p. 675, pi. i. figs.’1-3.— 
Upper Miocene; Hernals, Vienna. [Imperfect fish; 
Court Museum, Vienna.] ’ 
The following extinct genus and species, which is not represented 
m the Collection, probably belongs to the Blenniidm, but is too 
imperfectly known for exact determination :_ 
Oncole_pis isseli, P. Passani, Palaeont. Italica, vol. iii. (1898), p 79 
pi. IX. figs. 1, 2. — Fpper Eocene ; Monte Polca. [Imper¬ 
fect fish; Geological Museum, University of Genoa.] 
Nothing is known of the undescribed teeth from the Pliocene of 
Belgium, recorded under the name of Falanarrhichas crassus, H. Le 
Hon, Prelim. Mem. Poiss. Tert. Belg. (1871), p. 10. 
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Suborder X. ANACANTHINI. 
Vertebral centra always complete constricted cylinders, none 
coalesced. Supraoccipital extending forwards between the reduced 
parietals, S(][uamosal rudimentary and fused with the large pterotic j 
mandible simple, each ramus consisting only of two elements 
(dentary and articulo-angular). Xo spinous fin-rays. Pectoral arch 
suspended from the cranium; precoracoid arch absent; infra- 
clavicular plates absent; pectoral fin with not more than four or 
five basals. Pelvic fins, when present, thoracic or jugular. In the 
living forms :—air-bladder, when present, not connected with the 
oesophagus by a duct in the adult (physoclistous) j optic nerves 
decussating ’ intestine without spiral valve ^ reproductive organs 
with efferent ducts. 
Xo important extinct representatives of this suborder are known. 
All are normal members of the existing families, Gadidse and 
Pleuronectidse. 
Family GADID^. 
Prunk more or less elongate, and head bilaterally symmetrical. 
Mouth large and terminal; premaxiUa excluding maxilla from 
gape ; cheek-plates much reduced; gill-openings very wide. Ab¬ 
dominal vertebrae with transverse processes; ribs comparatively 
