CLASS PISCES. 167 



Cantharus, Cuv. 



Teeth short and crowded, or bent and crowded, all 

 round the jaws ; those of the external row being the 

 strongest. Body elevated and thick ; muzzle short ; 

 jaws not protractile. Two species are found in the 

 Atlantic and Mediterranean. 



Canth. vulgaris, Spar, canth., L., Rond. 120. and 

 Duham. sect. iv. pi. iv. fi. 1. Silver grey, longitudi- 

 nally striped with brown ; some small rough teeth 

 behind the bent ones. 



Canth. brama, Sparus brama, L. About the same 

 colour ; all the teeth bent '. 



In a fourth tribe the teeth are trenchant. It com- 

 prises two genera. 



Boops, Cuv. 





Teeth of the external row trenchant, mouth small, 

 and nowise protractile. Several species are found in 

 the Mediterranean. 



B. vulgaris, Sparus boops, L., Rond. 136. Twenty- 

 four teeth in each jaw, with an oblique cutting edge ; 

 the body, oblong, with longitudinal gold-coloured 

 stripes upon a silvery ground. 



B. Salpa, Sparus Salpa, L., Bl. 265. More oval ; 

 stripes of a more brilliant gold, on a ground of bur- 

 nished steel ; teeth broad, and emarginated. 



1 The figures given by Bloch, 269. and 270. of these two species, 

 do not give a good idea of these fishes. 



