The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon . 1/6, height of body 2/7 of the total length. Eyes—diameter 1/4 of lengthof head, \\ diameters from end of snout, and 3/4 of a diameter apart. The maxilla reaches to below the middleof the orbit. Vertical limb of preopercle serrated: sub- and inter-opercles entire. A broad fringed valve tothe posterior nostril. Teeth—villiform in the jaws, vomer, and anterior portion of the palatines. Fins—dorsalspines increase in length to the fifth and sixth, which equal two-fift
The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon . 1/6, height of body 2/7 of the total length. Eyes—diameter 1/4 of lengthof head, \\ diameters from end of snout, and 3/4 of a diameter apart. The maxilla reaches to below the middleof the orbit. Vertical limb of preopercle serrated: sub- and inter-opercles entire. A broad fringed valve tothe posterior nostril. Teeth—villiform in the jaws, vomer, and anterior portion of the palatines. Fins—dorsalspines increase in length to the fifth and sixth, which equal two-fifths the height of the body and are as long asthe rays, the last spine is a little higher than the one preceding it, no prolonged dorsal ray : pectoral reachesas far as the ventral and equals the length of the head excluding the snout: the ventral extends to the anus :second anal spine strongest, longest, and equalling the highest in the dorsal fin. Colours—body and verticalfins with brown spots, and a row of dark spots along the base of the dorsal. Habitat.—Bed Sea, seas of India to the Malay Archipelago and KATIVE OFFICIAL OF CUDDALORE AND FISHERMEN (186S). FAMILY, VII—SCOBP^ENID^E. 147 Family, VII—SCOKP^ENID^E, Swainson. Selerogenidce, pt. Owen. Branchiostegals five to seven: pseudobranchise. Body oblong, compressed or subcylindrical. Eyeslateral. Cleft of mouth lateral. Some of the bones of the bead armed: suborbital ring articulated with thepreopercle. Teeth in villiform bands. A single dorsal fin in two distinct portions: the anal usually similarto the soft dorsal: ventrals thoracic. Body scaled or scaieless. Air-vessel generally present. Pyloricappendages when present, few or in moderate numbers. Geographical distribution.—Some of these fishes are usually found in niost seas. SYNOPSIS OF GENERA. 1. Sebastes. Interorbital space convex, scaled. No occipital groove but usually a few spines on top ofhead : no skinny appendages. Teeth in jaws, vomer and
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