A CA NTHOPTER YGII. LA BlilD.E. 



TAB. I. 



JULIS TURCICA, Risso, Var. a. Nob. 



Peixe verde. 



Blue-collared Green-fish or Swallow-tailed Wrasse. 



Char. Gen. 



Corpus oblongiim ; capite operculisque integris inermibus, nudis. Linea lateralis postice abrupte 

 defleja. 



Ohs. — Pisces parvi, littorales s. nipestres, coloribus pulcherrimis variantes, vix edules. 



Char. Spec. 



J. ovali-oblonga : corpore viridi, lituris rufis creberrimis perpendiculate seriatis torqueque humerali 

 ccenilea viridive rubro fere margiiiata distincto : capite lateritio, fasciis ccenileis rivulosis anastomo- 

 santibus picto : pinnis pectoralibus apice nigricantibus ; dorsali antice miniato notata analiqiie 

 purpureo fasciatis, basi vaginato-squamatis ; caudali forcipata, lobis productis, purpurco vittatis : 

 operculo postice biangulato ; squamis magnis. 



2 y. 3 4. VI. 

 D. 8 + 13 ; A. 3 + 11 ; p. 2 + 13 ; V. I + 5 ; C- ^ 



2 V. 3 + VI. 



M. B. 6 ; Squamaj lineae lateralis 28 ; VertebrcE 9 abdominales -\- \6 caudales =^ 25. 

 J. turcica (Risso), Cuv. R. Anim. Ed. 2''^. ii. 258. 



J. pavo, Cuv. et Val. {Labrus pavo, Hasselq. ; L. syriacus, Bl. ; L. lichrmus, Risso, Ichthycl.) Hist. 

 XIII. 377, partim.* 



LahrusjMvo, Linn. Syst. Ed. 12'°^ I. 474. n". 8, partim. 

 Var. a. torqiiata : corpora efasciato, s. toto rufo liturato. 



J. turcica, Risso, Hist. Nat. iii. 312. n". 212. f. 21. 



J. pavo, Cuv. et Val. 1. c. t. 386. 



Lahrus lunaris vel Peixe verde, Sol. MSS. cum icone : (excl. var.) 



Tab. nost. 1. 



Vulgaris. 

 Var. /3. Icmniscata : lateribus viridi fasciatis ; fasciis perpendiculatis, angustis. 



Rariss. 



Longitudo, G-7 pollicaris, a;quat altitudini quater multiplicatai ^ 4 X alt. 

 Tempus, per totum annum. 

 Locus, littoralis, rupestris. 



* This species is here understood in a narrower sense than by MM. Cuvier and Valenciennes, who 

 appear to have included in it one distinct fish at least, J. uniniaculata, nob. ; and have not clearly 

 separated the varieties. The name Julis pavo must, at any rate, give way before the prior claim of 

 that affixed by Risso, and adopted by Cuvier in tlie Regne Animal, for the commonest or tj-pical 

 variety. The synonyms of Hasselquist and others are excluded from all competition ; the fish not 

 being now included in the genus Lubrus, and the question of precedence being limited by the generic 

 name. Lahrus pavo, L. is a mixture of the present fish with the already confused "" Labnis pulchre 

 varius," &c. of Artedi : itself become a medley in his Synonymia, of Willugliby's " Turdus perbelle 

 pictus" ( Lahrus miitus, Cuv. et Val.), and of Salviani's "Pavo" (Crenilahrus pavo, Cuv. et Val.). 

 Solander's " Vmietiis : cum macula nigra in medio prope basin pinnse dorsalis" is Julis unimacukita, 

 nob. 



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