A treatise on zoology . Fig. decadactylus, C. and V. (After GUnther.) Family Berycidae. This the most ancient family of the Acantho-pterygii persists at the present day, and is distinguished by the possessionof frona six to thirteen soft rays on the pelvic fins. The jaws are pro-tractile ; the rayodome and subocular .shelf of the suborbitals are present. BER YCI FORMES 427 The Berycidae preserve the ovbitosphenoid, as well as the alisphenoid andbasisphenoid (Starks [421]). Hoplopteryx, Ag. (Beryx) (Fig. 432) ; Sphenocephalus, Ag.—Cretaceous,Europe. Acrogaster, Ag. ; Holopteryx, Ag.—C


A treatise on zoology . Fig. decadactylus, C. and V. (After GUnther.) Family Berycidae. This the most ancient family of the Acantho-pterygii persists at the present day, and is distinguished by the possessionof frona six to thirteen soft rays on the pelvic fins. The jaws are pro-tractile ; the rayodome and subocular .shelf of the suborbitals are present. BER YCI FORMES 427 The Berycidae preserve the ovbitosphenoid, as well as the alisphenoid andbasisphenoid (Starks [421]). Hoplopteryx, Ag. (Beryx) (Fig. 432) ; Sphenocephalus, Ag.—Cretaceous,Europe. Acrogaster, Ag. ; Holopteryx, Ag.—Cretaceous, Europe and


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