Class IV. OBLONG DIODON, 129 



A very deep body, and as if cue off in the middle. IX. 



Mouth fmall. ' D10D0N - 



Two teeth only in each jaw. 



Sun-Fifli from Mount's-Bay. Oftracion lasvis. Gronov. 54- Oblong* 

 Borlafe Cornwall, 268. tab. Zooph. No. 185. 



26. Jig. 7. 



JjONDELETIUS has given this genus the fy- 

 -*■*- nonym of Ortkragorifcus, as if it was that 

 which Pliny * intended by the fame name ; but 

 the account left us by that naturalift is fo brief, 

 that we do not think ourfelves authorized to place 

 it as a fynonymous creature. He fays no more 

 than that it was the greateft of fifh, and that it 

 grunted when it was firft taken, from which pro- 

 bably role the name, for according to Athenaus, 

 c^ayo?™©- -f was that given to a young pig. 

 We are inclined to believe, that this fifh had 

 efcaped the notice of Pliny, otherwife he muft have 

 unavoidably made fome remark on its finking 

 figure. 



This fifti grows to a great bulk : that which SliJS » 

 was examined by Sahianusf was above a hun- 



* Lib. XXXII. c. 2. 

 f Lib. IV. p. 140. 



X Hjft. Pifc. 155. 

 Vol. III. K dred 



