. Fishes. Fishes. Cavallas and Pampanos 503 formed by the ossified cover of the air-bladder and with the hypocoracoid obsolete. Kurtus indicus is the principal species. The Menidae.—Near the KurtidcB we may perhaps place the family of MenidcB, of one species, Mene maculata, the moon-fish of the open seas of the East Indies and Japan. This is a small fish, about a foot long, with the body very closely compressed, the fins low and the belly, through the extension of the pelvic bone, a good deal more prominent than the back. The ventral. Fig. 393.—Mene maculata (Bloch & Schneider). Family Men
. Fishes. Fishes. Cavallas and Pampanos 503 formed by the ossified cover of the air-bladder and with the hypocoracoid obsolete. Kurtus indicus is the principal species. The Menidae.—Near the KurtidcB we may perhaps place the family of MenidcB, of one species, Mene maculata, the moon-fish of the open seas of the East Indies and Japan. This is a small fish, about a foot long, with the body very closely compressed, the fins low and the belly, through the extension of the pelvic bone, a good deal more prominent than the back. The ventral. Fig. 393.—Mene maculata (Bloch & Schneider). Family Menidse. Japan. fins have the usual number of one spine and five soft rays, a character which separates Mene widely from Lampris, which in some ways seems allied to it. Another species of Menidce is the extinct Gasteronemus rhombeus of the Eocene of Monte Bolca. It has much the same form, with long pubic bones. The very long ventral fins are, however, made of one spine and one or two lays. A second species, Gasteronemus oblongus, is recorded from the same rocks. The Pempheridae.—The Pempheridce, "deep-water catalufas," or "magifi," are rather small deep-bodied fishes, reddish in color, with very short dorsal, containing a few graduated Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931. New York, H. Holt and Company
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