MUR.ENIDE. 



APODAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



MURJENIDsE. 



THE SAND-EEL. 



HORNELS, (HORNEELS ?) Edinburgh. 



TManits, Lc Lanrott, CUVIKR, Regne An. t. ii. p. 300. 



,, LINN/EDS. BLOCH, pt. iii. pi. 75, fig. 2. 

 Angloncm verus, True Sand-Eel, JAGO. RAY, Syn. p. 165, pi. 2, 



fig. 12. 

 Tobianus, Wide-mouthed l.aunce, JENYNS, Man. Brit. Vert. p. 482, 



sp. 170. 

 Sand-Eel, DON. Brit. Fish. pi. 33? 



AMMODYTF.S. Generic Characters. Head and body elongated ; gill-openings 

 large ; dorsal fin extending nearly the whole length of the back ; anal fin of con- 

 siderable length ; dorsal and anal fins separated from the caudal fin. 



WE arc indebted, says Baron Cuvier, to M. Lesauvage, 

 of Caen, for pointing out the true distinctions in the two 

 species of Ammodytes belonging to the shores of the Channel, 

 A. Tobianus and A. Lancea, the first of which is rare, but 

 the second very caramon. 



Oar excellent naturalist and countryman Ray, has given 

 us, in his Synopsis, from Jago^s Catalogue of Cornish Fishes, 

 a good figure of the true Tobianus ; but it was not, I bclicve ; 



