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 A CANTHOPTERVGIl. 



Family 

 PERCID.^. 



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^UFFE OR ^;gOPE 



{Acerina ci-nuta.) 



Cernua fluviatUis, 



Perca jluviat. genus minus, 



Perca cernua, 



Acr.rina vulgaris, 



Aspro, 



Gesner, De Acjuatil. p. iqi; \Vili,ughi;v, p. 33+. 



Gesner, p. 701. 



LiNXyEus; Bloch, pi. 53, f- 2. 



Cuv. ET Valenc, iii. p. +, pi. 41 ; Yakkei.l, Brit. Fish., i. p. i; 



Gunthek's Cat. i. 72. 

 Couch, Fish. Brit. Isles, i. p. 193, pi. +1. 



Characters 0/ the Genus Acerixa. — "Seven branchiostegals. All the teeth villiform, without canines: no teeth on 

 the palatine bones or on the tontjiie. One dorsal, with thirteen to nineteen spines; the anal fin with two; operculum 

 and prcBoperculum spiniferous. Mucifcrous channels of the bones of the skull ver_v developed. Scales rather small." 



GiJNTHER. 



THE Ruffe, Jack Ruffe, Daddy Ruffe, or Pope, as this fish is called, does not appear to 

 be noticed anywhere in the writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans. According to 

 Cuvier, the learned Dr. John Caius (born 15 10) first discovered this fish, and sent a figure 

 of it to Gesner, who published it. Gesner, however, knew of the existence of the Ruffe from 



