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Show PISCES. 126 din two series, with smaller h b k and ten on the belly, arrangde. the Atlantic, by Peron.(l) t e ac ' It was discovere lB intermediate ones. FAMILY III. SCIENOIDES. · • '1 · losely re1 a te d to the Percoides, and even This fam1 Y lS c b' t' ons of external characters, 1 similar com ma 1 d . Presents near y . . of the preoperculum, an m I . the mdentations d l . particular Y m 1 • but both vomer an pa atines the spines of the opere~ um ' f the cranium and face are ge. are without teeth ; the ones o zle more or less gibbous. and form a muz nerally cavernous entl somewhat scaly. The vertical fins a~e r;~~: ha:e two dorsals, and others have Some of the s~:n:Ormer we first find the genus, but one; among ;• ScxlENA, consist of a gibbous head, supported by Whose common characters d ly emarginate, whose soft dorsals or one eep d cavernous bones, two ' . a short anal, a dentate preo· Part is much longer than the ~pm?us;. oints and seven branchial culum termmatmg m p ' fi h perculum, an oper b f the palatine teeth, these s es rays. If it were not for the a se~c:eoentire head is scaly; their nata· would resemble the Perches. . 'th remarkable appendages, tory bladder is frequently furmshed w; than in most fishes.(2) and the stones in the sac of the e~r are arger We divide this genus as follows. SoilENA, Cuv. Spines of the anal, wea k ; ~el·t h er can ini nodr ci. rrFie. garo of the Ge- &. umbra, Cuv.; Pe~srey of Langue ~~' £ t and more in noese· Umbrina of the Romans, &c. lX ehe . de of the na· length' ; numerous branc h e d app endages on eac Sl (1) The fig. and detailed description W.l ll be fio un d .m ou r fourth vol. Oreoso.m.tl > a mountainous body. . . . ccordance with the oplnt~n (2) This determination of the genus SCI:ena JS m a d 1' successors, but'" of Artedi; it has been variously modified by Linn:eus an us our opinion not very successfully· ACANTHOPTERYGII.· 127 tatory bladder. A good fish, but it has latterly become rare on the coast of Europe.( I) .. . 0TOLITHus, Cuv. Anal spines, as in the preceding, weak, and no cirri; some of the teeth are elongated hooks or true canini; the natatory bladder has a horn on each side which is directed forwards. They are found in America and India.(2) I I ANOYLODON. A sort of Otolithus with a very short muzzle, excessively long canini and a pointed tail.(3) 1. . ConviNA, Cuv. 'i' Neither canini nor cirri; all the teeth small and crowded. They also differ from the Scirenre and th Otolithus in the size and strength of the second anal spine. One species is very abundant in the Mediterranean. 8c. nigra, Gm.; Corb noir; Bl. 297. A silvery brown; ven. trals and anal, black.( 4) JoHNIUs, BI. The fishes of this supdivision are connected with those of the preceding one by a nearly uninterrupted series, the second anal spine is merely somewhat weaker and shorter than the subsequent soft rays. They are found in India where they form a· considerable (1) Artedi having confounded it with the &iama nigra, it is only latterly that it has been again determined. - See my Memoir upon this Fish in the Mem. du Mus. tome I, p. 1;-Add the Maigre du Cap, or Labre hololepidote, Lacep. III, xxi, 2;theMaigre l:Jrule, which is the Perea ocellata, L., or Oentropome reille, Lacep., the &iama imberbis of Mitchill, and the Lutjan triangle, Lacep., Ill, xxiv, 3. (2) Ot. ruber, Cuv., or the Peclte pie:rr,e ofPondichery; Johnius ruber, BI.,, Schn., P· 17;-0t. versicolor, Cuv., Uussel, II, cix;-Ot. regalia, Cuv., Johnius regalia. Bl., Schn., orLabrussqueteague, Mitchill, Ann. New York Lye. I, ii, 6;-0t. r/wm. boi'clali8, or Lutjan de Cayenne, Lacep., IV, p. 245;-0t. 1triatus, Cuv., or Guatu~ cupa, Marcgr., Braz., 177, and sevet·al others described in our fifth vol. (3) Lonchurus ancylodan, BI., Schn., XXV. (4) Add, Carv. miles, Cuv., or Tel/a katchelee, Russ. 117;-C. triapinosa, Cuv., orBodianu88tellifer, Bl. 331, 1;-C.oscula,Lesueur, Ac.Nat. Sc. Phil.Nov.182.2;~ la cuja, Buchan. pl. xii, f. 27r-0. furr:rrea, Cuv., Lacep., IV, p. 424; and Bola .'tor, Buchan. XXVII, 24;-Bodianus argyroleucus, Mitch. Ann. New York Lye. I, VJ13, ' \ ... I |