122 PISCES. 



pectorals, as in Cottus, are articulated, they are simple and not 

 branched. 



ScorpjEna, Cuv. 



The head spinous, tuberculous, and without scales; small crowded 

 teeth in both jaws and palatines; irregular cutaneous cirri on differ- 

 ent parts of the body. 



Sc. scropha, L.; Bl. 182; and better, Duham., sect. V, pi. iv. 

 Redder; larger scales and more numerous cirri. 



Sc. porcus, L.; Bl., 181, and Duham., sect. V, pi. iii, x, 2. 

 Browner; scales smaller and more numerous. They live in 

 troops among the rocks; wounds from their spines are consi- 

 dered very dangerous.(l) 

 The T^NiANOTEs are Scorpsenae with a strongly compressed body, 

 whose very high dorsal is united to the caudal. 



Sebastes, Cuv. 



All the characters of the Scorpsenae, except that there are no cu- 

 taneous cirri, and that the head is less rough and scaly. 



There is a large species in the northern Ocean called the 

 Marulke, and in some places Carp^ the Sebastes norvegicus, 

 Cuv.; Perca marina^ Penn.; Perca norvegica, Miill. Bonnat., 

 Encycl. Meth. pi. Icthy. f. 210. It is red, and frequently up- 

 wards of two feet in length. The Esquimaux dry it for food, 

 and use its dorsal spines as needles. The Mediterranean pro- 

 duces another, very similar, but which has fewer dorsal rays, 

 the Sebastes imperialis, Cuv. ; Scorpeena dactyloptera, Laroche, 

 Ann. Mus. XIII, pi. xxii, f. 9. Its palate is black, and it has no 

 natatory bladder, although the contrary is the case with the 

 preceding species.(2) 



Pterois, Cuv. 

 Characters of the Scorpaena, properly so called, except that there 



(1) Add, Sc. diabolus, Cuv., Duham. sect. V, pi. iii, f. 1; Sc. bufo, Cuv., 

 Parr, XVIII, 1, c; Sc. cirrhosa, or Perca cirrhosa, Thunb., New. Stockhol. Mem., 

 XIV, 1793, pi. vii, f. 2; Sc. papillosa, Forst., Bl., Schn., 196; Sc. Plumier, 

 Lacep. I, xix, 3; Sc. venosa, Cuv., Ross., 56, and several new species described 

 in our 4th vol. 



(2) The pretended Sc. malabarica, Bl. Schn., 190, is a Sebastes, identical with 

 the species of the Mediterranean. Add, Sc. capensis, Gmel.; Holoc. albofasdatus, 

 Lacep. IV, 372; Perca variabilis. Pall., or Epinephelus dliatus, Tiles., Mem. 

 Acad. Petersb.,IV, 1811, pi. xvi, f. 16. 



