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ray of their dorsal, and often even of their anal, is 

 prolonged into a filament, as in Chatoessus. 



America possesses a species, the Savalle, or Apalike, 

 Clupea cyprinoides, Bl. 403, after Plumier, CI. gigan- 

 tea, Sp. Camaripu guacu, Marcgr., which attains as 

 much as twelve feet in length, and has but fifteen rays 

 to the dorsal ; its anal has also a filament. There is 

 another in the East Indies, ignorantly confounded 

 with the preceding ; the Megalope jilamenteux, Lacep. 

 V. xiii. 3. under the false name of Apalike, Russel, 

 203. It has seventeen rays to the dorsal. 



Elops, L., 



Have all the characters of megalops, but want the 

 elongated filament to the dorsal ; their form is a little 

 more elongated. There are as many as thirty rays, 

 and more, to the membrane of the gills ; a flat spine 

 arms the upper, and the lower edge of the caudal. 

 They are to be found in both hemispheres \ 



1 The Elops of the Indian Ocean is the Argentina machnata of 

 Forskal, and the Magil salmoneus of Forster, BL, Schn. p. 121 ; I am 

 convinced of this from his figure, though he gives it but four branchial 

 rays. It is also the Jinagow, Russel, 179. and the Synode Chinois, 

 Lacep. V. x. 1. The Elops of America is the Mugil appendiculatus 

 of Bosc, or Mugilomore Anne- Caroline, Lacep. v. 398 ; the Pounder, 

 Sloane, Jam. II. pi. ccl. f. 1. The Argentina Carolina, Linn., is 

 most certainly also the same fish, although he cites but a very bad 

 figure of it, Catesb.II. xxiv. ; but the Saurus maximus, Sloane, II. 

 pi. ccli. 1. which is generally cited as synonymous with Elops, is 

 altogether of another genus. It is the Esox synodus, Lin. ; Synode 

 fasce, Lacep., or, what comes to the same thing, one of our Sauri, 

 which had lost its adipose fin. 



