The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . , which do not overlap each other, but have the appearance of the teeth of a file; threespines on the dorsal, the first long;, the third small and faiback; extremity of the chest salient and prickly, withsome spines in the skin behind, which have been con-sidered as rays of ventral fins. Some have no pnrticulararmature of the tail; and of these, again, some have largescales behind the gill-openings. Such is the EuropeanFile-fish—B. capriscus, which has been o
The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . , which do not overlap each other, but have the appearance of the teeth of a file; threespines on the dorsal, the first long;, the third small and faiback; extremity of the chest salient and prickly, withsome spines in the skin behind, which have been con-sidered as rays of ventral fins. Some have no pnrticulararmature of the tail; and of these, again, some have largescales behind the gill-openings. Such is the EuropeanFile-fish—B. capriscus, which has been occasionally, butvery rarely, found on the British shores, and which is com-mon in the Mediterranean. Monacanthus.~-T\i\s subgenus has very small scales, setrough like the pile of velvet; a large cirrated spine on thefirst dorsal, and the extremity of the pelvis salient andspinous. Some have the pelvic bone moveable, and con-nected with the abdomen by an extensile membrane, andfrequently strong spines on the sides of the tail. Some havestout bristles on the tail, some have the body with tuber-cles, and others with branched Fig. 141.—BMiates penciliigen
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