. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. 304 PISCES. ylMrtiay, the Climbing Perch of India. Tills ^enus has the labyrinths highly complicated ; the third pharyn^l have pavement teeth, and tliere are others behind the cranluni; the body is round In the section, and covered with strong scales ; the head Is large, the muzzle short and blunt, and the mouth small ; their lateral line is interrupted for the posterior third ; the margins of the operculum, super-operculum, and inter- operculum, are strongly toothed, but there are no teeth in the pre-operculum ; thei
. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. 304 PISCES. ylMrtiay, the Climbing Perch of India. Tills ^enus has the labyrinths highly complicated ; the third pharyn^l have pavement teeth, and tliere are others behind the cranluni; the body is round In the section, and covered with strong scales ; the head Is large, the muzzle short and blunt, and the mouth small ; their lateral line is interrupted for the posterior third ; the margins of the operculum, super-operculum, and inter- operculum, are strongly toothed, but there are no teeth in the pre-operculum ; their gills have five rays ; they have many spinous rays in the dorsal and anal ; and their stomach is of middle size, rounded, and with three cœcular appendages J- ,3j •iinblT' *" *^^ pyrolus. Only one species is known, which not onl) quits the water, and moves over banks, but Is said by Daldorf to climb bushes and trees, by means of its dorsals and the spines on the gill-lids ; but others dispute the latter power. This species is very common in India. Polyacanthus, has the spinous rays as numerous as the last genus, or even more so ; and the same mouth, scales, and interrupted lateral line, but the gill-lid is not toothed ; the body is compressed ; there are four rays in the gills, a narrow band of small crowded teeth in the jaws, but no palatal teeth ; the labyrinths are less complicated, and the pyrolus has only two cœcular appendages. Macropodus, differs from the last in having the dorsal less extended, and that in the caudal and ventral ending in slender points ; the anal is also larger than the dorsal. Hesostoma, have a small compressed mouth, so protractile as to advance from and retreat to the suborbitals ; they have small teeth on the lips, and some on the jaws of the palate ; five gill-rays, on the arches of which, to- wards the mouth, there are lamellae resembling the external ones ; the stomach is small, and has only two pyrolic cœca, but their intestine is l
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