SHINING GURNARD. 



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ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



WITH HARD CHEEKS. 



THE SHINING GURNARD, 



OR LONG-FINNED CAPTAIN. 



T rigia lucerna. 



Cuculus, KONDELET, Latin edition, p. 287. 

 Ronget, French edition, p. 227. 



Trigla lucerna, Brigotte, ERUNNICH, p. 76.* 



,, Orghe, Risso, Icht. p. 209. 



,, milvKS, ,, ,, Hist. p. 395. 



,, lucerna, L'Orgue, Cuv. et VALENC. Hist, des Poiss. t. iv. p. 72. 



,, ,, Long-Jinned Captain, Mag. Zool. and Bot. vol. i. p. 526. 



THE Gurnard figured above has been made known as a 

 species new to the British Catalogue by Dr. Parnell, who ob- 

 tained several specimens from the fishermen of Brixham in 

 Devonshire, by whom, in reference to the elongation of the 

 second ray of the first dorsal fin, it is called the Long-finned 

 Captain, and by whom also it is not considered rare. The 

 reason why a species so strongly marked as to specific dis- 



* Ichthyologia Massiliensis, 1768. 



