ANGLESEY MORRIS. -M>M 



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MALACOPTERYG1L MURXNIDJE. 



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THE ANGLESEY MORRIS. 



Leptocephalus Morrisii, Anglesey Munis, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. hi. p. 212, 



pi. 28. 

 ,, ,, ,, ,, MONTAGU, Wern. Mem. vol. ii. p. 



436, pi. 22, f. 1. 

 FI.EM. Brit. An. p. 200, sp. 111. 



,, ,, ,, ,, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 480. 



,, ,, Le Leptocephale, CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 358. 



LEPTOCEPHALUS. Generic Characters. Head small and short; teeth numer- 

 ous ; pectoral fins and gill-opening very small ; body compressed and very thin, 

 tape-like ; dorsal and anal fins small, united at the tail, forming a point. 



THIS species was discovered in the sea near Holyhcad by 

 Mr. William Morris, who sent the specimen to Pennant, by 

 whom it was named after his friend. Pennant subsequently 

 sent the same specimen to Gronovius, who described it under 

 the generic name of Leptocephalus^ in reference to the small 

 size of the head. 



Any doubts which might formerly have been raised as to 

 the real existence of such a species, to which Colonel Montagu 

 has alluded, must have ceased to exist, as this fish has now 

 been taken and recognised in various localities. Pennant, in 

 his first description, perhaps from the state of his specimen, 

 was not aware of all the characters this delicate fish possesses ; 

 but Colonel Montagu has well described and given a figure 



