MALACOPTERYGIL GADID.E. 



SUBBRACHIALES. 



TAB. XXVII. 



PHYCIS MEDITERRANEUS, Lab. 



Abrotea. 



The Sea-Tench, or Madeiran Whiting. 



Char. Gen. ; vide supra tab. vii. 



Char. Spec. 



P. pinna dorsali prima subdeccmradiata rotundata humili brevi, secundam analemque altitudine 

 hand superante : veiitralibus capite subloiigioribus. 



ima. D. 9 — 1 1 ; 2<'^ D. G5 ; A. 6-2 ; P. 18. v. 19 ; V. 1 ; C. 5 + XX + 6 

 M. B. 7 ; Vertse. 14 abd. + 33 vel 34 caud. - 47 v. 48. 



P. Mediterraneus, (Lar., P. tinea, Schn.) Cuv. R. An. ii. 33.5.— Risso, iii. 222. — Syn. Fish. 

 Mad. 189. 



P.furcatus, Bowd. (nee aliorum) Exc. in Mad. 122. f. 28 ; male. 

 Blennius Plit/eis, Linn. i. 442. n°. 7. 

 Phjcis, Art. Gen. App. 84. no. ,5.— Rondel. 186. 

 Pliycis, /3. Art. Syn. App. 111. 



Asellus Callarias Bellonii, Salviani ; Tmca marina, Aldrov. ; Phycin Rondeletii, Gesn. p. 84.5 ; Tl/w*- 

 telce qffiuis. Will. 205. t. N. 12. f. 3 (copied from Salviani). 

 Callarias sive Tenca mayina, Salv. 231. t. 93 ; opt. 

 a. cinerea ; corpora cineraceo, pallido. 

 Salv., Will, Bowd., 11. cc. 



An P. Gmelini, Risso, iii. 223 ? Confer Cuv. R. An. ii. 33fi, note. 

 Vulgatiss. 

 Ii. coffeacea ; corpore fusco-nigrcscente. 

 Rondel., Art., Risso, 11. cc. 

 Rarior. 



Lotic/it. = I — 2-pedalis =; 4 X alt. 



Tempus, autumno, liieme ; sed per totum annum. 



Loeiis, in raediis profundis : a. vulgatiss : (3. rarior. 



RoNDELET seems to have been mistaken, although he has been fol- 

 lowed in the notion by Artecli, in referring Aristotle's ipv/c}g to this fish ; 

 which is rather the Callarias of Pliny, the ovog %.ccXXci^icig of Arche- 

 stratus in Athenseus, Z. 99,* and the ;cuKkcc§inig of Oppian, A. 105; 



* Ed. Dindorf, ii. 688. The ovktxos yaxy.oc^iu; of Dorion iu Athcn. Z. 90. d. (Dindorf, ii. 680), 

 is even still more doubtful ; and, from his associating and comparing it with his " Rivcr-Mura;na" 



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