. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. 298 PISCES. climates, and arc remarkable for the beauty of their colours. Their intestines are long, with numerous cœca, and their air-bladders are large and strong. They frequent rocky shores, and are eaten. The following are the genera :— Chatodon, properly so called, with the body more or less elliptical, the spinous and soft rays continued in a uniform curve, the snout pro- jecting more or less, and sometimes a small dentation on the operculum. They all resemble each other, even in their colours, being marked with
. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. 298 PISCES. climates, and arc remarkable for the beauty of their colours. Their intestines are long, with numerous cœca, and their air-bladders are large and strong. They frequent rocky shores, and are eaten. The following are the genera :— Chatodon, properly so called, with the body more or less elliptical, the spinous and soft rays continued in a uniform curve, the snout pro- jecting more or less, and sometimes a small dentation on the operculum. They all resemble each other, even in their colours, being marked with a black band which passes over the eye. In some, there are several vertical bands ; others have them longitudinal, or oblique ; some have brown spots on the flanks ; some have glossed bands on the vertical fins, and one or two ocellated spots. Some of them are also distin- guished by filaments produced from the soft rays of the dorsal, and others have very few spines in that fin. Chelmon, remarkable for the length of its snout, with the mouth small, and at the extremity, and the teeth fine like hairs. One species, C. rostratus, has the faculty of shooting insects with drops of water pro- jected from the mouth, and it seizes them as they fall. It is found near the shores of South-eastern Asia. Heniochus, Coachman, have the first spines of the dorsal, and particu- larly the third and fourth, extended into filaments like a whip, and often twice the length of the body. Ephippus, Horseman, with a deep notch between the spinous and soft portions of the dorsal, the first of which has no scales, and can be folded into a groove on the back. There are various species, some of —f^hœtortonro» the American and some of the Indian seas; and one species is said to be a very foul feeder. Many of this genus are found fossil in Mount Bolca in Italy, which is a vast magazine of petrified fishes. Ilolocantfius, have a strong spine on the operculum, with the edge of that too
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