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FISTULA RID.E. 





ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



FISTULARWJE* 



THE TRUMPET-FISH. SEA-SNIPE. 

 BELLOWS-FISH. Cornwall. 



Ceniriscus scolopax, LINN/EUS. 



,, BLOCK, pt. iv. pi. 123, fig. 1. 



,, ,, Snipe-nosed Trumpet-fish, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 190. 



,, ,, Snipe-fish, DON. Brit. Fish. pi. 63. 



,, ,, Trumpet-fish, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 220, sp. 170. 



,, CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 268. 



,, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 400. 



CENTRISCUS. Generic Characters. Snout produced ; mouth small ; teeth 

 wanting : body compressed, oval, covered with scales ; two dorsal fins, the rays 

 of the first spinous ; ventral fins united ; abdomen carinated. 



THE TRUMPET-FISH is, in a British series, the last of 

 the Acanthopterygian fishes, or those having some of their 

 fin-rays spinous. 



One specimen of this singular-looking fish, recorded in the 

 eighth volume of the Transactions of the Linnean Society to 

 have been taken in England, was thrown ashore at St. A listless 

 Bay, in Cornwall, early in the year 1804. This example was 

 five inches long. 



* The family of tube-mouthed fishes with spiny fin-rays. 



