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THE GRANULATED PERCH. 



Perca yranulata. — Cuv. et Val. 



PLATE I. 



La Perch a Tete Grenue — Perca granulata, Cuv. et 

 Valen. Hist. Nat. des Poissons, ii. 48. 



D. 15—2.13; A. 2.8; C. 17; P. 15; V. 1.5* 



The Granulated Perch inhabits the rivers which 

 flow from the Blue Mountains towards the Atlantic 

 Ocean, and, with two others from the same 

 country, is so similar to that of Europe, as to 

 have been confounded with it, and to have assisted 

 in the idea that the latter was also found in the 

 New World. It indeed approaches very closely 

 by the bands on the sides, and the red colour of 

 the lower fins ; and the distinctions pointed out 

 by Cuvier are the stronger teeth upon the vomer, 

 the more delicate indentations of the preopercle, 

 and the more irregular form of the cranium. 

 The second dorsal fin has one ray more than that 

 of the common perch, that of the first being 2.13. 

 the latter, 1.13. 



* The rays of the fins will be stated, as above, at the 

 commencement of each species, — the letters signifying 

 Dorsal, Anal, Caudal, Pectoral, and Ventral. 



