The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . or food. The first two genera inhabit the Mediterranean, the thirdthe Indian Ocean, and the fourth the Atlantic, whence a stray individual sometimes reaches the coast of England. THE SIXTH FAMILY OF THE (Scalv-finncd). These fishes are so designated because the soft, and often the spinous parts, of their dorsal fins areso covered with scales as not to be easily distinguished from the rest of their bodies. This is the mostdistingui
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . or food. The first two genera inhabit the Mediterranean, the thirdthe Indian Ocean, and the fourth the Atlantic, whence a stray individual sometimes reaches the coast of England. THE SIXTH FAMILY OF THE (Scalv-finncd). These fishes are so designated because the soft, and often the spinous parts, of their dorsal fins areso covered with scales as not to be easily distinguished from the rest of their bodies. This is the mostdistinguishing character ; but they also have, in general, the body much compressed, and the intestineslong, and with numerous cceca. Linnajus included all those known in his time in the genus Cluelodnn,or bristle-teeth, from the thinness and close array of these parts; but this genus admits of subdivision,and there are some others. The Cheetodom have their teeth like a brush, their mouth small, their dorsal and anal fins scaly likethe body, so that it is difiicult to say where the fin commences. They abound in the seas of warm 298 fg-13S-—Chjetoriou rostratus. climates, and are remarkable for the beauty of their colours. Their intestines are long, \vith numerouscceca, and their air-bladders are large and strong. They frequent rocky shores, and are eaten. Thefollowing arc the genera:— Cficetodon, properly so called, with the body more or less elliptical,the spinous and soft rays continued in a uniform curve, the snout pro-jecting more or less, and sometimes a small dentation on the all resemble each other, even in their colours, being marked witha black band which passes over the eye. In some, there are severalvertical bands; others have them longitudinal, or oblique; some havebrown spots on the flanks; some have glossed bands on the verticalfins, and one or two ocellated spots. Some of them are also distin-guished by filaments produced from the soft rays of
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