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SCOMBERID.E. 



ACANT1IOPTERYGIL 



SCOUBEEJDJE. 





THE BOAR-FISH. 



Capros Aper, LACEPEDE. 



CUVIER, Regne An. 1829, t. ii. p. 211. 



,, Cuv. et VALENC. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. x. p. 30, pi. 281. 



Aper Rondeletii, WILLUGHBY, p. 296, p. T. iv. fig. 4. 



Zeus Aper, 

 Perca pusilla, 

 Capros Aper, 



ieus 



LINN/EUS. 



BRUNNICH, p. 62, sp. 79. 



Risso, t. iii. p. 380, sp. 296. 



Proceedings Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 114. 



Boar-Jish, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 368. 



Generic Characters. Body oval, compressed ; two dorsal fins ; no spines 

 at the base of the dorsal or anal fins ; scales on the body small, adherent, 

 ciliated ; mouth capable of protrusion ; teeth small, numerous ; branchiostegous 

 rays 6. 



A SPECIMEN of the Capros Aper of authors having been 

 taken in Mount's Bay, in October 1825, and a notice of the 

 occurrence forwarded to the Zoological Society, with a draw- 

 ing and description, by Dr. Henry Boase, a figure and a 



