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Show 162 PISCES. . r btl indurated, their stomach is elonnarticular, are but vety s 1 g y umet·ous· the natatory bladder is " · ca are very n ' gated, and their .ere fl h is very rapidly decomposed. wantm. g, an d then· mucousd . es th European seas wh.t ch d'1 £u1! er m• t he 1 · s are foun m e . . Severa specte 1 which when ennre, that 1s when f. 1 · dors·tl rays, anc number o t lelr ' t singular appearance from the \)ro· young, frequent~y present amos longation of thelr fi~s: f h Mediterranean species has but from The most brllhant o t el clred and fifty dorsal rays: it has h clred and forty to a 1Un one un l f oderate size. Another has from 1 b n seen smal 'or o a m . on Y ee t hundred and seventy-five, spectmens h d ed and seventy o a . a un r r d . l)'lnets from four to five feet m length. f h' h are 1oun m ca ' . o w. lC than two hundred of these rays, and lS more A third has more than seven feet in length. . N h The Arcti. c ocean pr oduces two specie.s , ca.l led m orwayh t e K' f the Herrings;( I) one of which IS satd by some to ave mg 0 d d d twenty ra)'S and by others one hundred and one hun re an ' h . . the length of ten feet; the other as mme 51'x ty and to attam ) Th ' ur hundred rays, and is eighteen feet in length.(2 . e . than fo . t f a long £lament dilated near the extremtty. ventrals cons1s o They are also found in lndia.(3) d hich has become the Cepola trachyptera, Gmel.,, only di~er~ from cnYPT:En~s, an w f R d 1 327 and even from his Trenia pnma, which IS the the Trerua. alt~a o d f;:me ~be s;ada maxima, Imperati, 517, or Cepola glad~us of Cepola trem.a, d '{:an the Treniafalcata Aldrov., or Cepola iris of Walbo.um, m the W~lbaum, an rfo~ r . dual mutilatio~. lt is the same with respect to the Vogma~ var1ous degrees o lD( tV I 1 li G no aster arcft· :fs t h I elanders of Olafsen and Powelsen, Isl., tr. fr., p . ' or ym g o~ B~·unnich, Soc. Scient. Copen h., III, pl: ~iii, w~ich is the genus B;G.~:~~ lll s hn. with respect to the Gymnetre cepedzen, RISSO. Ed. I, pl. v, f. 7· lat Jl;~yc~iu;' quadrimaculatus, Rafin. Caro.tt., I, f. 3, to his Scarcina quadrlmacu. [: d im erialis. to the Gymnetrus mediterraneus of Otto; to the Epidesmus macu ·f ;:8 of ~anza;i, Opusc. Scientif. Fascic., Vlll, and to th~ Re~al~~s ;::z;~:~~. Narde, Phys. Journ., Pavia, VIII, pl. i, f. 1. .AU the.se fis es ~r ly t mutilated: cies and not in the least as to genus. Bonnc~li's specimen ~as t le eas he Cnlls it 11rachymterus cristatus, Acad. Turm, XXIV, pl. IX. ft ds " r . , II 1 . 1 . ch he a erwar ( 1) It is the Regalecus glesne, Ascanms, Ic., 'F asc. , P · Xl, w 11 R [' named Ophidium glesne, Mem. Soc. Scient. Copenh., III, P· 419,, or the ~~~:st:: remipes Brunnich, lb. pl. B, f. 4 and 5. Bloch., Syst., pl. 88, cop1es and a figure ~f Ascunius. A better copy is, Encycl. Method., f. 358. ... (2) Gymnetrus Grillii, Lindroth, New Stockh. Mem., XIX, pl. Vlll· (3) Gymnct?·us Russelii, Shaw, lV' part. II, page 195, pl. 28. l l eoU Add the Gymnetrus Hawkenii, if the figm·e be correct; but the Rega ec ancd ' d' Shaw, oes or Ophidie chinoise, Lacep., I, xxii, 3, or the Gymnetrus cepe wnus1 not belong to this genus. ACANTHOPTERYGII. 163 STYLEPIIouus, Shaw. A vertical caudal, as in Gymnetrus, but shorter; the extremity of the tail, instead of being curved into a small hook, is prolonged into a slender cord longer than the body. S. chordatus, Shaw, Lin. Trans. I, vi, Nat. Misc., VII, pl. 274, and Gen. Zool., IV, part I, pl. ii. A badly preserved specimen, and the only one known. It was taken in the Gulf of Mexico, and for a long time we only had the above mutilated drawing of it. M. de Blainville however has given us a more regular figure; Journ. de Phys. tome LXXXVII, pl. i, f. 1, which exhibits no ventrals. · In a third tribe the snout is short, and the mouth cleft obliquely. CEPOLA, Lin.(l) A long dorsal and anal, both reaching to the base of the caudal, which is tolerably large; no rise in the cranium; snout short; lower jaw curved upwards; the teeth prominent, and the ventrals sufficiently developed. There are but two or three non-articulated rays in the dorsal, which are as flexible as the others; the spine of the ventrals is alone stiff and sharp; there are six rays in the branchice, and the abdominal cavity is very short as well as the stomach; there are some cceca and a natatory bladder which extends into the base of the tail. · Cep. rubescena, L.; Lin. Trans., VII, :xvii; and Bl., 170, under the false name of Cep. trenia.(2) A Mediterranean species of a reddish colour. LoPHOTEs, Giorna. A short head, surmounted with a high osseous crest; to whose summit a long and stout spine is articulated, bordered behind with a membrane and a low fin, whose rays are nearly all simple, extending from this spine to the point of the taiJ, which has a distinct, but very small caudal; an extremely short anal beneath that point; moderate pectorals, beneath which are scarcely perceptible ventrals, com- (1) This name of CEPou, given byWillughby as a Romansynonyme of the Fietmfer, has been applied by Linn. to the present genus, to which the Fierasfer does not belong. (2) Add the Oepola japonica, Krusenst. Voy. pl. lx, f. i. \ |