Naucrates. In this genus most of the epipleurals of the praecaudal region are inserted on the ribs, but the hinder ones are on the centra.

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Cf. Geoffroy, Ann. du Mus. ix. 1807, p. 473; F. J. F. Meyen, Reise um die Erde, i. p. 56 (1834).

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For a detailed account of these fishes and of Xiphias, cf. Brown Goode, Proc. U.S. Mus. iv. 1881, p. 415, and Rep. U.S. Fish Comm. f. 1880, 1883, p. 289.

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Monographs by Lunel, Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève, xviii. 1865, p. 165, and by Lütken, Spolia Atlantica, i. 1880, p. 491.

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Troschel, Sitzb. Ver. Preuss. Rheinl. xx. 1863, p. 51 (Brama raii and B. longipinnis).

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