A treatise on zoology . Fig. scrrata, Cuv. (After Day, Fishes 0/India.) Family Fistulariidae. The body is quite naked or with vestigialscutes, and without dorsal fin spines. The caudal fin bears a long fila-ment supported by the middle lepidotrichia. Fistularia, L. (Fig. 410) ; tropical Atlantic and Indo-Pacific Oceans;and Eocene, Fig. hiDiicrosus, Rich. (After Guiitber.) Sub-Tribe C. Centriscoidei. With a comparatively short compressedbody, an anterior dorsal fin with a stout spine, very short pectoralradials, no ribs, no suborbitals, and no teeth. Famil
A treatise on zoology . Fig. scrrata, Cuv. (After Day, Fishes 0/India.) Family Fistulariidae. The body is quite naked or with vestigialscutes, and without dorsal fin spines. The caudal fin bears a long fila-ment supported by the middle lepidotrichia. Fistularia, L. (Fig. 410) ; tropical Atlantic and Indo-Pacific Oceans;and Eocene, Fig. hiDiicrosus, Rich. (After Guiitber.) Sub-Tribe C. Centriscoidei. With a comparatively short compressedbody, an anterior dorsal fin with a stout spine, very short pectoralradials, no ribs, no suborbitals, and no teeth. Family Centriscidae. The body is covered with rough scales, andscutes, some of which are fused to the neural spines and to the transverseprocesses of the modified anterior vertebrae. EJiamphosus, Ag. ; Eocene, Italy. Centriscus, Cuv. {Macrorhamplwsus,Lac.) (Fig. 411) ; Atlantic and Pacific. Family Amphisilidae. Scaleless, but with a complete armour ofscutes fixed to the endoskeleton. The tail is shortened and twistedventrally, the dorsal fin projecting beyond it. 414 TELEOSTEI AffipMsile, Cuv. (Fig. 412) ; Indo-Pacific Ocean ; and Eocene andOligocene, Europe. V Aiiipldsile scutata, L. (After Day, Fishes of India.) Tribe 3. Lophobranchii. Toothless elongate fisli, with scutes, very small pectoral radials, noair-bladder, and gill-lamellae in the form of
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