Class IV. LUMP SUCKER. 133 



Thick body, arched back. X. 



Ventral fins united. . SUCKER - 



Four branchioftegous rays. 



Lumpus anglorum. Gefner 87. Gronov. Zooph. No. 57 • Lump. 



Paralip. 25. 197. 



Seehaefs, HafFpodde. Scbo- Cyclopterus Lumpus. C. cor- 



nevelde. 41. pore fquamis offeis angula- 



Lump, or Sea-Owl, Scotis to. Lin, fyfi. 414. 



Cock paddle. Wil. Ictb. Sjurygg-fifk, Stenbir, Quabb- 



208. Raiijyn.pifc. Jj. fu. Faun, Suec. No. 320. 

 Cyclopterus. Arted. Jymn. 



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HIS (insular filh encreafes to the weight of 



feven pounds, and the length of nineteen 

 inches : the lhape of the body is like that of the 

 bream, deep and very thick, and it fwims edge- 

 ways. The back is fharp and elevated, the belly 

 flat. 



The irides are of a cherry color ; lips, mouth, Descrip, 

 and tongue, of a deeper red: the jaws lined 

 with innumerable fmall teeth •, the tongue very 

 thick ; along the ridge of the back is a row of 

 large bony tubercles \ from above the eye to with- 

 in a fmall fpace of the tail is another row ; beneath 

 that a third, commencing at the gills ; and on each 

 fide the belly a fourth row, confiding of five tu- 

 bercles like the other : the whole fkin is rough, 

 with fmall tubercles. 



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