Fishes . tspecies, valued as food. Sillago sihauia ranges from Japan toAbyssinia. A number of small families, mostly Asiatic, may be appendedto the percoid series, with which they agree in general characters,especially in the normal structure of the shoulder-girdle andin the insertion of the pectoral and ventral fins. The Lactariidcs constitute a small family of the East Indies,allied to the SciccniJcc, but with three anal spines. The mouthis armed with strong teeth. Ladarins kictnriits is a food-fish ofIndia. The NandidcB are small spiny-rayed fishes of the East Indianstreams, without pseudob
Fishes . tspecies, valued as food. Sillago sihauia ranges from Japan toAbyssinia. A number of small families, mostly Asiatic, may be appendedto the percoid series, with which they agree in general characters,especially in the normal structure of the shoulder-girdle andin the insertion of the pectoral and ventral fins. The Lactariidcs constitute a small family of the East Indies,allied to the SciccniJcc, but with three anal spines. The mouthis armed with strong teeth. Ladarins kictnriits is a food-fish ofIndia. The NandidcB are small spiny-rayed fishes of the East Indianstreams, without pseudobranchiae. Jhe Polyccntrida: are small fresh-water perch-like fishes ofthe streams of South America, without lateral line and withmany anal spines. f Surmullets, Croakers, etc. 573 The Jawfishes: Opisthognathidse, etc. — The Pseudochromi-pidce are marine-fishes of the tropics with the lateral line inter-rupted, and with a single dorsal. They bear some resemblanceto Plesiops and other aberrant Fig. 486.—Gnathypops evermanni Jordan & Snyder. Misaki, Japan. Very close to these are the Opistogfiathidcs or jawfishes witha single lateral line and the mouth very large. In certainspecies of OpisthognaiJius, the maxillary, long and cur\-ed, extendsfar behind the head. The few species are found in warm
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