RAY S SEA BREAM. 



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ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



SQUAMMI PEN NESS 





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RAY'S SEA BREAM. 



Brama Raii, Cuv. et VAI.ENC. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. vii. p. 281, pi. 190. 



,, ,, WILLUGHBY, Appendix, p. 17, tab. V. 12. 

 Spar us ,, BLOCIJ, pt. viii. pi. 273. 



,, ,, Rayan Gilt-head, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 330, pi. 54, 



under the name of Toothed Gilt-head. 

 Ray's Toothed Gilt-head, DON. Brit. Fish, pi. 131. 

 ,, ,, ,, ,, MS. of Couch and Montagu. 



Brama ,, ,, Sea Bream, J EN YNS, Brit. Vert. p. 359. 



Generic Characters. Body compressed, deep ; profile of the head almost ver- 

 tical ; a single elongated dorsal fin ; dorsal and anal fins with scales attached 

 to the membranes ; teeth slender incurved, placed on the jaws and palatine 

 bones, sometimes with two in the front more elongated than the others ; bran- 

 chiostegous rays 7. 



THE very peculiarly formed Marine Bream to which Ich- 

 thyologists have assigned the name of our celebrated coun- 

 tryman and naturalist John Ray, appears to have been less 

 perfectly known to the older writers than might have been 

 expected from its singular shape and prevailing numbers. It 

 is figured by Duhamel, and also by Willughby and Bloch. 



* With scales on the membranes of some of the fins. 



