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CHAP. XX.] FISHES. 455-<br />

Family 82.—NOTOPTEKID^. (1 Genus, 5 Species.)<br />

" Fresh-water fishes, without barbels, head and body scaly,<br />

long tapering tail, and short posterior dorsal fin."<br />

DiSTRTBUTiON.—Eivers of India, Siam, the Sunda Islands, and<br />

"West Africa.<br />

Family 83.—HALOSAUEID^. (1 Genus, 1 Species.)<br />

" Marine fishes, with cycloid scales, a short median dorsal fin,<br />

and no barbels."<br />

Distribution.—Deep waters of the Atlantic, Madeira.<br />

Family 84—GYMNOTID^. (5 Genera, 20 Species.)<br />

" Fresh-water fishes, with elongate bodies, pointed tail, and no<br />

dorsal fin."<br />

Distribution.—Tropical America from Trinidad to the Eiver<br />

Parana.<br />

The genera are distributed as follows :<br />

Sternarchus (8 sp.), Guiana and Brazil ; MhampMchthys<br />

(6 sp.), Guiana and Brazil ; Sternophygus (4 sp.). Tropical<br />

America; Carapus (1 sp.), Trinidad to Brazil; Gymnotus, (1 sp,<br />

—<br />

—the Electric eel), Tropical South America.<br />

Family 85.—SYMBEANCHID^. (4 Genera, 6 Species.)<br />

" Marine and fresh-water fishes, having elongate bodies without<br />

fins, and very minute scales or none."<br />

Distribution.—Fresh waters and coasts of Western Australia<br />

and Tasmania.<br />

The genera are :<br />

—<br />

Amphipnous (1 sp.), Bengal; Monopterus (1 sp.), Siam to<br />

Northern China and Sunda Islands ; Symbranchus (3 sp.), Tropical<br />

Vol. II.—30

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