Class IV. SHORT D I A D O N. 



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Orthragorifcus five Luna 



pifcis. Rondel. 424. 

 Mola Salviani, the Sun-fifh. 



TViL Icth. 151. Rati fyn, 



pi/ciju 

 Oflracion cathetoplateus fub- 



Tetraodon mola. T. lams, 

 compreirus, cauda truncata, 

 pinna breviffima dorfali a- 

 nalique annexa. Lin. fyft % 

 412. Gronov. 7Looph. No. 

 186. 



rotundus inermis afper, Brunnich pifc. MaJ/il. No. 16. 



pinnis pe&oralibus hori- Sun-fifh, from Loo. Borlafe 



zontalibus,foraminibusqua- Cornwall, 267. tab* 26. 



tuor in capite. Arted. fy- Jig. 6. 



nox. 83. 



55. Short, 



THIS differs from the former, in being 

 much fhorter and deeper. The back and 

 the anal fins are higher, and the aperture to the 

 gills not femilunar, but oval. The fnuation of 

 the fins are the fame in both. 



This fpecies was taken off Penzance, and is en- 

 graved in Doctor Borlafe's Natural Hiftory of 

 Cornwall, from one of Mr. Jago's drawings. Both 

 kinds are taken on the weftern coafts of this king- 

 dom, but in much greater numbers in the warmer 

 parts of Europe. 



Mr. Brunnich informs us, that between Antibes 

 and Genoa, he faw one of this fpecies lie afleep on 

 the furface of the water : a fajlor jumped over- 

 board and caught it. 



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Tetraodon 



