. Synopsis of the fishes of North America [microform]. Fishes; Poissons. 97. EPHIPPID^âCH^TODIPTERUS. G13 species, closely related to the ChntodonU, but said to show important (lifftTcnces in the skeleton. Fishes niostlj' of largo size, in warm seas, suiuetimes entering rivers. (SiiuitinipinucH part; gencru Scatopha'jua, Ephippiia, and Drcpanc, , ii, 57-65.) a. Anal spines H; dorsal spiiios 8 or S), the third prolonged; profile very steep; scales small C''TKnt'8, ;W7. 327.âCIIJGTODIPTERUS Lacdpede. {I'arephippus Gill.) (Lacdpode, Hist. Nat. Poiss. iv, 50J, 1802: ty\tii Ch(etodo
. Synopsis of the fishes of North America [microform]. Fishes; Poissons. 97. EPHIPPID^âCH^TODIPTERUS. G13 species, closely related to the ChntodonU, but said to show important (lifftTcnces in the skeleton. Fishes niostlj' of largo size, in warm seas, suiuetimes entering rivers. (SiiuitinipinucH part; gencru Scatopha'jua, Ephippiia, and Drcpanc, , ii, 57-65.) a. Anal spines H; dorsal spiiios 8 or S), the third prolonged; profile very steep; scales small C''TKnt'8, ;W7. 327.âCIIJGTODIPTERUS Lacdpede. {I'arephippus Gill.) (Lacdpode, Hist. Nat. Poiss. iv, 50J, 1802: ty\tii Ch(etodon jylumicri B\och=Chniodon fahcr Brouss.) Body much elevated and corajjressed, its outline nearly orbicular, the anterior profile nearly vertical. Scales suuill, 55-70 in the course of the lateral Hne. Jaws about equal; no teeth on vomer or palatines; teeth oil jaws slender, somewhat movable; preopercle finely serrulate. Bran- chiostegals G. Dorsal fins 2, somewhat connected, the first of usually H spines, the third of which is elongate; anal spines i^, small, the second the longest; ventral with a large accessory scale. Pyloric coeca 4-G. American, distinguished from the Asiatic genus Ephippiis by the very much smaller scales, {x'^irodwv^ Chaitodou; Sn;^ two; izTspo-^^ fin, the dorsal being divided.) v '. ':; i ^- ' 90'i> C faber (B<*<)U8s.) J. & G.âJngel-fish; Porgee. Grayish; a dusky band across the eye to the throat; a second similar band, broader, beginning in front of the dorsal and extending across the base of the pectoral to the belly; a third band, narrower, extending to the middle of the sides, from the base of the fourth and fifth dorsal spines; a fourth broader band from the last dorsal siiine to the anal spines, the remaining bands alternately short and long; all of these bands growing obscure and disappearing with age; ventrals black. Vertical fins low in the young, lalcate in the adult. Third dorsal spine nearly as long as from eye to edge of preo
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