The natural history of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals . genus as a representation of the riband-fish, moreespecially as their eyes and gill-covers are very large. 366 CLASSIFICATION OF FISHES. With these two genera, we follow Cuvier in placing an-other, which he has named Lebia (),which differs in nothing from Poecilia but in having. the teeth (a) serrated — a very questionable groundfor generic difference when unsupported by any othercharacter, We esteem ourselves fortunate in being ableto present our readers with correct figures of these rareand in
The natural history of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals . genus as a representation of the riband-fish, moreespecially as their eyes and gill-covers are very large. 366 CLASSIFICATION OF FISHES. With these two genera, we follow Cuvier in placing an-other, which he has named Lebia (),which differs in nothing from Poecilia but in having. the teeth (a) serrated — a very questionable groundfor generic difference when unsupported by any othercharacter, We esteem ourselves fortunate in being ableto present our readers with correct figures of these rareand interesting fishes, all represented of their naturalsize, from the masterly delineations of Le Sueur. (29T-) Hitherto, however, notwithstanding the ana-logy of these viviparous genera (and more especially ofAnabl&ps) to the cartilaginous order, we have men-tioned no fish which externally possessed any resem-blance to the latter, or gave us any idea that theCobxtidcE really exhibited any such modification ofform as a flat head, large pectorals, and a transversemouth, placed beneath a projecting snout,—characters,in fact, which every one knows are prevalent throughall the cartilaginous types, and, therefore, peculiarly cha-racteristic of them. There are, however, among theIndian drawings published by Hardwick and Gray,the figures of two species of their genus Balit
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