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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 6

Scombridæ

page 72

Scombridæ.

Body generally elongate, compressed, naked, or covered with scales of small or moderate (Nomeina) size; eye lateral. Dentition variable. The infraorbital bones do not articulate with the præoperculum. The spinous dorsal less developed than the soft or than the anal, either continuous with, or separate from, the soft portion, sometimes entirely absent. The soft dorsal and the anal sometimes divided posteriorly into finlets. Ventrals thoracic,* sometimes rudimentary or entirely absent. No prominent papilla near the vent. Gill-opening wide; generally seven branchiostegals, pseudobranchiæ, and an air-bladder; pyloric appendages generally in great number.

Inhabitants of the high seas of nearly all the regions, many of the species having a very wide range.

Scomber australasicus. Port Jackson. "Mackerel."

Naucrates ductor. Ditto. "Pilot Pish."

Elacate nigra. Ditto. "King-fish."

Echeneis remora. Ditto. "Sucking-fish."

——naucrates. Ditto. Ditto.

Gasterochisma melampus. New Zealand coast.

Platystethus cultratum. Norfolk Island.

Zeus faber. Port Jackson. "Sun-fish."

Cyttus australis. South coast.

* Jugular in Pteraclis and Hypsiptera.

Absent in Coryphæna.

Absent in Elacate, Echeneis, Stromateus, and Coryphæna.