The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . -Balistes penciUige PLECTOGNATHI. 32<). } Fig;. —Balistes ^eograiih Aluteres, have the body 1011;, the granulationsscarcely visible, and a single spine in the firstdorsal, but the pelvis is completely hidden in theskin. Triacanthus, has a kind of ventrals, each sup-ported by one large spinous ray, adhering to a non-projecting pelvis; the first dorsal has one largishspine, and three smaller ones behind it; the bodyis crowded with small scales; and the
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . -Balistes penciUige PLECTOGNATHI. 32<). } Fig;. —Balistes ^eograiih Aluteres, have the body 1011;, the granulationsscarcely visible, and a single spine in the firstdorsal, but the pelvis is completely hidden in theskin. Triacanthus, has a kind of ventrals, each sup-ported by one large spinous ray, adhering to a non-projecting pelvis; the first dorsal has one largishspine, and three smaller ones behind it; the bodyis crowded with small scales; and the tail is longerthan in any of the other subgenera. The singleknown species inhabits the Indian Ocean. Ostracion, the Trunk-fish, has the head and bodycovered in such a manner with plates of bones,soldered together, as to form an inflexible cuirass,leaving only the tail, the fins, the mouth, and asmall margin of the gill-opening, capable of mo-tion,—all of which moveable parts pass throughopenings of the cuirass. The greater part of the vertebra are also soldered together. The jaws are furnished with a row of ten or twelve conical teeth ; and tlieyhave no apparent gill-o
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