. Synopsis of the fishes of North America [microform]. Fishes; Poissons. iir f I. 388 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY—IV branchiae pieseut. Gills 4, a Hlit behind the fourth. No pyloric ((Bca• intestinal canal short. A single genus of three or more species, chiedy of the Old AVorld, one of them straying to America. (C'enfnVft/a part, genus Cen<n«c«8 GUnther, iii, 518-5114.) 1§ LiuniEus. • ; Snipe-Jishea. (LinnsDUS, Syst. Nat. 1753: type Centriacus scolopax L.) The characters of the genus are included above. {xsvrpifTxo^^ an ancient name of some spinous fish; from xi
. Synopsis of the fishes of North America [microform]. Fishes; Poissons. iir f I. 388 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY—IV branchiae pieseut. Gills 4, a Hlit behind the fourth. No pyloric ((Bca• intestinal canal short. A single genus of three or more species, chiedy of the Old AVorld, one of them straying to America. (C'enfnVft/a part, genus Cen<n«c«8 GUnther, iii, 518-5114.) 1§ LiuniEus. • ; Snipe-Jishea. (LinnsDUS, Syst. Nat. 1753: type Centriacus scolopax L.) The characters of the genus are included above. {xsvrpifTxo^^ an ancient name of some spinous fish; from xivrpw^^ a spine.) 631* C. scolopax Linu.—Snipe-fish; Trumpet-fish; Bellotcs-fish. Eoae red or reddish olive above, silvery on the sides and belly, Body strongly compressed and somewhat elevated, covered with small itiiated scales, each stria terminating in a rather strong spine; second tlorsat spine very strong, serrated posteriorly, its length about ^ total leiifjtli of fish; snout several times longer than the rest of the head. Head 2i in length ; depth 3 J to 4. D. V-12 ; A. 20. Mediterranean Sea; occa- sional northward; accidental on our coast. (Linn. Syst. Nat.; Giinther, iii, 518.) Family LXL—FISTULARIID^. {The Trumpat, fishes.) ^ , . Body extremely elongate, much depressed, broader than deep. 5fo Scales. Bony plates present on various parts of the body. Head very long, the anterior bones of the skull much produced, forming a long tube, which terminates in the narrow mouth; both jaws, and usually the vomer and palatines also, with minute teeth ; membra lie uniting the bones of the tube below, very lax, so that the tube is capa ble of much dilation. Branchiostegals 5-7; gills 4, a slit behind the fourth. Gill-membranes separate, free from the isthmus; gill-rakers ob- solete. PseudobranchisB present. Air-bladder large. Spinous dorsal fiu entirely absent; soft dorsal short, posterior, somewhat elevated; anal fin opposite it and similar; caudal fin forked, the mid
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