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SPINY-FINNED FISHES.
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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 | ||
