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SPINY-FINNED FISHES.

which have these fins very large, and several long supplementary rays in front of them.

PTERACLIS.

The following seventeen Families of Acanthopterygian Fishes are enumerated in the synopsis of the Prince of Canino, who gives the affixed number of species known (in 1831) to belong to each.

SP.
1	Percadæ	483
2	Sphyrænadæ	15
3	Mullidæ	42
4	Trigladæ	164
5	Sciænadæ	231
6	Sparidæ	158
7	Mænadæ	43
8	Chætodontidæ	157
9	Scombridæ	262
10	Cepoladæ	14
11	Teuthididæ	60
12	Ophiocephalidæ	40
13	Mugilidæ	52
14	Gobiadæ	173
15	Lophiadæ	40
16	Labridæ	283
17	Fistulariadæ	15
Total 2232

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