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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 6

Polynemidæ

Polynemidæ.

Body compressed and oblong, covered with scales, feebly ciliated or without serrature. Lateral line continuous, continued on the tail. Mouth at the lower side of the snout, with lateral cleft. Eye lateral, large. Seven branchiostegals; pseudobranchiæ. Villiform teeth in the jaws and on the palate. Two separate dorsals,—the second, the caudal, and the anal fin more or less covered with minute scales. Several filiform appendages below the pectoral fin, entirely free and articulated. Ventrals thoracic, with one spine and five rays. The bones of the head with the muciferous system well developed. Air-bladder varying in form and structure, and sometimes wanting.

Tropical regions of the Atlantic; East Indian seas to the Pacific. Entering rivers.

Polynemus indicus. Port Jackson.

——macrochir. Ditto.