^"^ PISCES. 



pa ticular are but very slightly indurated, their stomach is elon- 

 gated, and their caeca are very numerous? the natatory bladder is 

 wantmg and their mucous flesh is very rapidly decomp'osed. 



J'u v'T'T ^""^ "^ '^' ^""-^P^^" ^^ ^hich differ in the 

 number of thezr dorsal rays, and which when entire, that is when 

 young, frequent y present a most singular appearance from the pro- 

 longation of their fins. ^ 



The most brilliant of the Mediterranean species has but from 

 one hundred and forty to a hundred and fifty dorsal rays: it has 

 only been seen small, or of a moderate size. Another has from 

 a hundred and seventy to a hundred and seventy-five, specimens 

 of which are found in cabinets, from four to five feet in length. 

 A third has more than two hundred of these rays, and is more 

 than seven feet in length. 



The Arctic ocean produces two species, called in Norway the 

 I.mg of the HerringsXl) one of which is said by some to have 

 one hundred and twenty rays, and by others one hundred and 

 sixty and to attain the length of ten feet? the other has more 

 than four hundred rays, and is eighteen feet in length.rs) The 

 ventrals consist of a long filament dilated near the extremity. 

 1 hey are also found in India.(3) 



Walbau, and fr. .he T^,aU>a. ^,0.^7^^^. Walt LTJ 



vanoua degrees of individual mutilation. I, is the same with resDec7trtreT 



of the Icelanders of Olafsen and Powelsen, Isl. ,r fr 7v7r! , *^ 



and im-nPrinlU tr. fK ^ . ^^arau., l, t. o, to his Scarcina quadrimamlata 



Narde Phys. wS., p.., .^^II'^L;^:^^^ ^^^^^ 

 , c.es and not m the least as to genus. Bonnelli's specimen was the lls^'dlated 

 he calls It Trachypterus cristatus, Acad. Turin, XXIV pi ix "^"tikted: 



na^d^^SLfi^:-^;:^'^!-^ 



figure of Ascanms. A better copy is, Encycl. Method., f. 358. 



(2) Gymnetms Grillii, Lindroth, New Stockh. Mem., XIX, pi viii 



(3) (rymnetrus Russelii, Shaw, IV, part. II, page 195 pi 28 



Add the Gyranetrus Hawkenii, if the figure be correcJ; but the Regakc lancioU 

 or Ophidic chinoise,'L2icn.. I x^ii T or th /^, ^ 7. ''""^'^'"cfo<' 



not belong to this genus Gymnetrus cepedtanus, Shaw, does 



