SYNOPSIS. 40o 



Gen. LXXXIX. Echenets. Dorsal single, corresponding 

 ■exactly to the anal ; mouth wide, with small recurved teeth on 

 both jaws, as well as on the tongue and vomer. 



Sp. 191. E. Remora. Common Sucking-fish. Head flat 

 above, the suctorial disc consisting of from seventeen to 

 nineteen transverse bars ; lower jaw longest ; caudal cres- 

 cent-shaped ; colour dusky broAvn. Cuv. Reg. An ; Yarr. 

 Brit. Fish., ii. p. 377. Mediterranean Remora, Penn. Brit. 

 Zool., iii. App. p. 524. 



ORDER IV. MALACOPTERYGII APODES ; SOFT- 

 FINNED FISHES WITHOUT VENTRALS. 



Fam. XXII. MwrcEnidcB. Eel Family. Body cylindrical, 

 very much elongated; scales small, and enveloped in a thick 

 miiccms epidermis. 



Gen. XC. Anguilla. Dorsal, anal, and caudal fins united ; 

 the dorsal commencing considerably behind the pectorals, upper 

 jaw shortest. 



S^AQI. A.acutirostris. Sharp-nosed Eel. Head compressed, 

 the snout sharp ; eyes placed immediately over the angle 

 of the mouth, the gape extending to beneath the middle 

 of the eyes ; dorsal commencing at about one-third of the 

 entire length from the snout ; anal occupying about one- 

 half of the entire lengtb ; pectorals small and rounded ; 

 vertebrae 113; upper parts dark olivaceous green ; sides 

 lighter ; belly white ; all these tints often more or less 

 tinged with brown and dusky. — Yarr. Proa. Zool. Sac, 

 1831, pp. 133 and 159 ; Brit. Fish., ii. p. 381. Jenyns' 

 Brit. Vert., p. 474. Anguilla vulgaris, Cv/v. Reg. An. 

 Mura3na anguilla, Limi., Penn. Brit. Zool., iii. p. 191. 



3p. 193, A. latirodris. Broad-nosed Eel. Head broad, 

 snout rounded ; gape extending to a point rather behind 

 the eye ; teeth more numerous than in A. acutirostris and 

 A. vtiedioroitris ; gill-openings, pectoral fins, the com- 

 mencement of the dorsal fin, and the vent, placed further 

 back than in A. acutirostris ; fins deeper ; vertebrae 115i 



