The natural history of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals . iqueter Bloch, pi. 130. concatinatus. lb. pi. 131. Platycanthus* Sw. Compressed, subtriangular,, withbroad obtuse plates or spines scattered over the bodyand eyes. P. auratus. Shaw, Nat. Miss. pi. 338. 2. SuEFAM. Body compressed, oval-fusiform, covered with a gra-nulated coriaceous skin, which is (typically) reticulated;muzzle conic, much prolonged, ending in a very smallmouth, furnished with a few sharp teeth in each jaw;pelvis sometimes forming a single ventral fin; dorsalfins two, armed in front with
The natural history of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals . iqueter Bloch, pi. 130. concatinatus. lb. pi. 131. Platycanthus* Sw. Compressed, subtriangular,, withbroad obtuse plates or spines scattered over the bodyand eyes. P. auratus. Shaw, Nat. Miss. pi. 338. 2. SuEFAM. Body compressed, oval-fusiform, covered with a gra-nulated coriaceous skin, which is (typically) reticulated;muzzle conic, much prolonged, ending in a very smallmouth, furnished with a few sharp teeth in each jaw;pelvis sometimes forming a single ventral fin; dorsalfins two, armed in front with spines. Balistes Linn. Body scored, or divided into diamond-shaped granulated divisions ; the interstices smooth ;dorsal fins two, the first spinous; tail armed oneach side by two or more series of acute prickles. Balistes Linn. Spines in the first dorsal fin smooth, acute, with three membranaceous rays; caudal fin generally rounded. Medinella. Freys. Atl. pi. Lamarouxii, lb. fig. 1. 46. 2. (fig. i03.) aculeatus. Bloch, pi. 149. * Acarana Gray. BALISTID^. BALISTIN^. 325 103. --^-^^s*-
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