ARGENTINE. 161 



ABDOMINAL 



MALACOPTERYGII. SALMONJD&. 



THE ARGENTINE. 



Scopetus Humboldtii, CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 315. 



,, borealis, NILSSON, Prod. p. 20. 

 Serpes Humboldtii, Risso, Ich. p. 358, tab. X. f. 38. 

 Scopelus ,, ,, Hist. t. iii. p. 467 . 



Argentina sphyrana, Argentine, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 432, pi. 76. 



,, ,, ,, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 182. 



Humboldti, ,, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 433. 



SCOPELUS. Generic Characters. Body long, slender ; the principal dorsal 

 fin over the interval between the ventral and anal fins ; a second dorsal fin, so 

 small as to be scarcely perceptible : the head short ; the mouth and gill-aperture 

 large ; small teeth on both jaws ; palate and tongue smooth. 



Ax the time of publishing the first edition of this work, 

 Pennant, and the Rev. Mr. Low of Orkney, appeared to be 

 the only British observers who had met with, on our coast, 

 examples of this brilliant little fish, which Cuvier considers 

 to belong to the genus Scopelus, as here stated ; and other 

 references are here added, to assist in determining the species. 

 The Scopelus Humboldtii, if identical with Pennant's Ar- 

 gentine, is taken to the north of our island, and also in the 

 Mediterranean, as the remarks of Professor Nilsson and 

 M. Risso imply ; and the latter naturalist enumerates three 



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