208 ORDER ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



found from England to the Cape of Good Hope, but is 

 rare every where. 



Trichiurus, Lin. Lepturus, Artedi. Gymnogaster. 



Gronov. 



The same form of body, muzzle, and jaws, as in 

 Lepidopus ; similar pointed and trenchant teeth, and 

 a dorsal extending along the back, but the ventrals 

 and caudal are wanting, and the tail is drawn out into 

 a long, slender, and compressed filament. In lieu 

 of the anal there is merely a suite of small and hardly 

 perceptible spines on the under edge of the tail ; the 

 branchiae have but seven rays. They resemble beau- 

 tiful silver ribands ; the stomach is elongated and 

 thick ; the intestines straight ; the cceca numerous, 

 and their natatory bladder long and simple. 



Trick, lepturus, Lin., Brown, Jam. pi. xiv. f. 4 \ is 

 found in the Atlantic, both on the coast of America 

 and that of Africa. 



Two other species are known from the Indian Ocean, 

 one of which, Trick, kaumela, Schn., Clupea kaumela, 

 Forskal, and Gm. Savala, Russell i. 41. is very similar 

 to the lepturus, being only somewhat shorter. The 



1 It is the Ubirre, of Laet, Ind. Occid. 573, which, through a 

 mistake, pointed out by himself, he has placed in Marcgr. p. 161, as 

 belonging to the description of the Mucu, which is a Muraena ; this 

 mistake has produced such confusion, that Bioch and others were 

 led to believe that the trichiurus is a fresh- water fish. 



