WOLF-FISH. 



27" 



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ACANTHOPTERYG1I. 



GOEIADJE. 



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THE WOLF-FISH. 

 SEA-WOLF, SEA-CAT. Scotland. SWINE-FISH. Orkney. 



Anarrhiehas lupus, LINNAEUS. 



,, ,, BLOCK, pt. iii. pi. 74. 



,, ,, CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 240. 



,, ,, Cuv. et VALENC. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. xi. p. 473. 



,, Wolf-fish, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 201, pi. 27. 



,, ,, Striped Sea-wolf, DON. Brit. Fish.pl. 24. 



,, ,, Wolf-fish, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 208, sp. 127. 



,, ,, ,, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 384. 



ANARRFHCHAS. Generic Characters. Head smooth, rounded in form, muz- 

 zle obtuse ; body elongated, covered with minute scales ; dorsal and anal fins 

 long, distinct from the caudal : no ventral fins : teeth of two kinds ; those in 

 front elongated, curved, pointed ; the others on the vomer, as also on the jaws, 

 truncated, or slightly rounded : branchiostegous rays 6. 



CUVIER considers the species of Anarrhiehas as Blennies 

 destitute of ventral fins. One of them, the Wolf-fish of the 

 British coast, is almost exclusively a northern fish, and 

 has been seldom observed on our southern shore. It is 

 taken off the coasts of Norfolk and Yorkshire, in Berwick 

 Bay, in the Firth of Forth, and among the Orkneys ; accord- 

 ing to Mr. Thompson this fish is occasionally taken on the 

 eastern coast of Ireland ; it is well known also on the shores 

 of the North of Europe, in Greenland and Iceland. 



