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PERISTIDION. 



"With the general form of the Gurnards the snout is much more 

 lengthened; the body completely covered with plates, which are 

 arranged in ridges lengthwise. The separate processes are only two, 

 one on each side. 



ARMED GURNARD. 



MAILED GURNARD. MALARMAT. 



Lyra altera Rondeletii, 

 Triglot, cataphracta, 

 Peristedion malarmat, 



Peristellus cataphractum, 



Willoughby; p. 283, Tab. S. 3. 



Linnaeus. 



Lacepede. Risso. Cuvier. 



Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, 



New Series, vol. i, p. 17. 

 Yarrell; British Fishes, vol. i, p. 67. 

 G-untiier; Cat. Br. Museum, vol ii, p. 217. 



It appears that the Armed Gurnard is not rare in the 

 Mediterranean, where, as we are informed by Risso, its haunts 

 are chiefly in deep water, but that it comes within reach to 

 be caught at the equinoxes. It seems, however, to be a local 

 species, for Willoughby did not find it at Venice during a 

 residence of four months, nor at Genoa beyond a single example; 

 but in the markets of Rome it was of frequent occurrence. 

 It is a rare visitant to Britain, and hitherto has been taken 

 only on the coast of Cornwall. It was first announced as 

 British by Dr. Edward Moore, of Plymouth, from an example 

 taken with a trawl in the neighbourhood of the Eddystone; 

 and since then I have been informed by Mr. Peach of two 

 that were caught by a boat off Gorran, where that gentleman 

 at that time resided. A fourth has come to my hands from 



