^T Cleeve, on the Jhames, 



Order IV. 

 PHYSOSTOMI. 



Family 



SALMONID^. 



Sub- generic group — Salvelini. 



^MELT, 



iPARLING. 



{Osmerus eperlamcs.) 



Eperlanus, 



Osvierus, 



Salmo eperlanus, 



Smell Salmon, 



Smelt, Spirling and Sparling, (Scotland), 



Osmerus eperlanus. 



Eperlanus vulgaris. 



WiLLUGHBY, Hist. PisC. p. 202. 



Artedi, Syn. Nom. Pise. p. 45; Spec. Pise. p. 21, No. i. 



Lin., Sys. Nat. i. p. 511; Donovan, Brit. Fish. ii. pi. 48. 



Pennant, Brit. Zool. iii. p. 416, ed. 1812. 



Yarrell, ii. p. 129; Couch, Fish. Brit. Isl. iv. p. 276, pi. 227. 



Lacep., v. p. 22g; Flem., Brit. Anim. p. 181; Jenyns' Man. p. 429. 



Parnell, Fish. Firth of Forth, Mem. Wern. Nat. Hist. See. vii. p. 312; 



Yarrell, ii. p. 129; Siebold, Siisserwasserf. p. 271; Gunther's 



Cat. vi. p. 166. 

 Gaimard, Voy. Isl. at Groenl. pi. 18, fig. 2. 



Characters of the Genus Osjierus. — "Body covered with scales of moderate size. Cleft of the mouth wide; maxillary 

 long, extending to, or nearly to, the hind margin of the orbit. Dentition strong; intermaxillary and maxillary teeth 

 small, much smaller than those of the mandible. Vomer with a transverse series of teeth, several of which are large, 

 fang-like; a series of conical teeth along the palatine and pterygoid bones. Tongue with very strong fang-like teeth 



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