The natural history of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals . t obsolete, being composed of slenderconnected fieshy filaments extending to the length * I feel very doubtful if this is a true type of form. Does not the Heia-gramnios Stelleri of Tilesius belong to this sub-family? GADIDiE. BROTULIN^. SOI of the pectorals, and placed in a depression; upperjaw with two or four cirri; lower with tricirrata. Bl. 165. 3. SUBFAM. PHYCIN^. Head broad, depressed; ventral fins with the posteriorrays obsolete, or altogether wanting ; dorsal fins two. Raniceps Cuv. Head greatly dep
The natural history of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals . t obsolete, being composed of slenderconnected fieshy filaments extending to the length * I feel very doubtful if this is a true type of form. Does not the Heia-gramnios Stelleri of Tilesius belong to this sub-family? GADIDiE. BROTULIN^. SOI of the pectorals, and placed in a depression; upperjaw with two or four cirri; lower with tricirrata. Bl. 165. 3. SUBFAM. PHYCIN^. Head broad, depressed; ventral fins with the posteriorrays obsolete, or altogether wanting ; dorsal fins two. Raniceps Cuv. Head greatly depressed and very large ;first dorsal fin minute, formed as in Motella; thela^t ray lengthened; ventral fins very small, of sixrays; the two first lengthened, and ending in shortfilaments ; the rest nearly obsolete; caudal wedge-shaped. R. trifurcatus Cuv. Yarrell, ii. p. 204. Physis Artedi. Dorsal fins two, the first triangular,and higher than the second ; head moderately large,depressed; caudal rounded ; ventral fins each com-posed of a single cirriform ray unequally P. furcatus. Yarr. ii. Sw. App. Siculus. Sw. App. (^^. 94.)(See Vol. I. p. 322.) 4. SuBFAM. BROSMIN^.Dorsal fin one, long. Brosmius Cuv. General structure of Lota, but withone dorsal fin commencing above the pectoral, andnear double the length of the anal; caudal rounded;ventral very small, thick, and fleshy. B. Scotica. Penn. Brit. Zool. iii. pi. 37. 5. SuBFAM. BROTULIN^.Body anguilliform ; dorsal fin one, united to the caudaland the anal. 302 CLASSIFICATION OF FISHES, ETC. Brotula Cuv. Tail terminating in a point; mouthwith six cirri. B. barbata Bl. Sch. pi. 31. fig. 2. Pteridium Scopoli. Body anguilliform ; dorsal, caudal,and anal fins united; ventral fin of a long, single,undivided ray; no cirri; tail pointed. O. ater. Risso, Ichth. 142. pi. 11. fig. 41. Family 3. PLEURONECTID^. Flat Fish. Body very thin, oval; the dorsal and ventral fins ex-tending nearly the whole length of the fish;
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