chirid (kirid)

A fish of the family Chirida. Chiridæ (kī'ri-dē), n. pl. [NL., fied by the genus Chirus, to which different limits have been a igned by ichthyologists. In Chirocentrus Gill's system it includes those Cot to idea which have the dorsal elongated, consisting of nearly equal acanth opter ous and arthropterous portions, a long anal (about equal to the arthropterous dorsal), well-developed thoracic ventrals, compre ed head, lateral eyes, branchial apertures extensive, but with the membranes more or le united, an antrorsiform compre ed body, and a moderate number of vertebræ.