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[Gr. ἄκανθα ( a kantha ) =a thorn, a spine; πούς ( pous ), gen it. ποδός (podos) foot.] A tribe of clavicorn beetles, having, as their name imports, spiny feet. The A can tho pod a include only one genus, Heterocerus, the species of which frequent the borders of marshes, digging holes to conceal themselves, but speedily i uing forth if the earth about them be disturbed. a-cănth-op-ter-a, a-cănth-op-ter-i, 8. [Gr. ἄκανθα ( a kantha ) = a thorn, a prickle; ἀκή ( ake ) = a point; πτερόν (pteron) = a feather, a wing, or anything like a wing, e.g., a fin; πτέσθαι (ptesthai), inf in. of πέτομαι ( petomai ) = to fly.] Ichthy. The fourth sub-order of Profe or Müller's order Teleostea. It contains those fishes of Cuvier's Acanthopterygii, or spiny finned fishes, which have the inferior pharyngeal bones distinctly separated. Profe or Owen places under it two sub-orders, the Ctenoidei and Cycloidei. It is divided into the families Aulos tom ide, Triglidæ, Percoidæ, Trachinidæ, Mullidæ, Sphyrænidæ, Sciænidæ, Sparidæ, Chætodontidæ, Teuthidæ, Scomberidæ, Xiphiidæ, Coryphænidæ, Not a cant hidæ, Cepolidæ, Mugilidæ, Anabatidæ, Gobeidæ, Bleniidæ, and Lophiidæ. (See those words.) a-cănth-op-ter-i. [ACANTH OPTER A.] ạ cănth-op-těr-yg-i-an, a. & 8. [ACANTH OPTERYGII.] As adjective: Pertaining to fishes of Cuvier's order Acanthopterygii. he [Cuvier] called those Acanthopterygian which had the fin-rays or some of the anterior ones in the form of simple unjointed and unbranched bony spines. Prof. Owen: Lect. on Comp. Anat. of Verteb. As substantive: A fish belonging to Cuvier's order Acanthopterygii (q.v.). "... and that the Acanthopterygians , constituting three-fourths of all the known species of fish, are also the type most perfected by Nature, and most homogeneous in all the variations it has received."-Griffiths Cuvier, vol. x., p. 18.