10. ORTnAOORISClTS. 317 



Third Group. MOLINA. 



10. ORTHAGORISCUS. 



Orthmg'oriscus, Bl. Se/iii. p. •'510. 



Oeplialus, Shaw, Gen. Zoul. v. 2. p. 4-"32. 



Cephalus, Tympanoiuiiun, Diplauchiiis, Trematop.-sis, Ortliragoriscus, 



et Ozodiu'a, Ranzuni. 

 Ranzauia ct Orlliagorisciis, Nardu. 

 Pedalion, Guikling. 



Jaws without median siiture. Tail extremely short, truncate ; 

 vertical fins more or less confluent. Body compressed, short, covered 

 with a roun;h or tessellated skin not capable of being expanded by 

 air. Ventral fins none. No peMc bone. Air-bladder absent. 

 An accessorjf opercular gill. 



Pelagic fishes of the tropical and temperate regions. 



a. ORTHAGoniscus, Skin rough. 



1. Orthagoriscus mola. 



Sun -Fish. 



Orthragoriscus s. Luna piscis, Rondel, p. 424 ; Gesner, p. 640. 



Mola, Saloian. fol. loo; A/druv. p. 412; WiUwjhhj, p. 151, tab. J 2G; 



Jondon, i. tit. 1. cap. 3, tab. 9. fig. 2; Jan. rianc. Comm. Inst. 



Bonon. iii. p. -S.'il, tab. 8; Borlasc, Cornwall,^. 2(58, tab. 26. fig. 7; 



Br'dnn. Rise. Mass. p. 8; Dotnsma, Verh. j\faatsch. Weet. Ilaar- 



km, xii. 1770, p. 413, c. tab. ; Houttui/n, Natuurl. Hist. i. tab. 68. 



fig. 7. 

 Ostracion, sp., Artedi, S)jncm. p. 83. no. 4 ; Gen. p. 61. no. 22 ; 



Gronov. Zoophi/l. nos. 185 & 186. 

 Tetrodon mola, L. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 412 ; Retz. Vet. Ac. Kya Handl. vi. 



1785, p. 115, tab. 4; Donovan, Brit. Fish. ii. p. 25; Hume, Led. 



Compar. Anat. vi. pis. 50 & 51. 

 Short Diodou, Peiin. Brit. Zool. iii. p. 131, pi. 19. 

 Short Tetrodon, Penn. I. c. ed. 1812, iii. p. 172, pi. 22. 

 Mole, Dtthamel, Resches, ii. sect. ix. p. 306, pi. 23. 

 Diodon mola, Bl. Ausl. Fisch. i. p. 75, 1. 128. 

 Tetrodon lune, Lace'p. i. p. 509. 

 Ortliragoriscus mola, Bl. Schn. p. 510; Flem. Brit. An. p. 175; 



Jeiti/ns, Man. p. 400; Bellinijham, Mag. Nat. Hist. 1840, p. 235; 



Sclileg. Faun. Japou. Roiss. *p. 288, tab. 127 ; Yarrell, Brit. Fi.th. 



2nd edit. ii. p. 462, and 3rd edit. ii. p. 432; Ram. Werner. 



Mem. vii. p. 401 ; Dekay, Neiu York Faun. Fish. p. .331, pi. 59. 



fig. 193; Storer, Massaeh. Rej)o7-fs,\i. 170, pi. 3. fig. 1, and Mem. Atn. 



Acad. viii. p. 420, pi. 34. fig. 2 ; Bennett, Whaling Voyage, ii. p. 2()2 ; 



Kriiyer, Damn. Fisk. iii. p. 732 ; AV/*s-. Skand. Faun. Fisk. p. 61t7; 



Weltenhergh, Obserrationes anatomiece de O. M. Liidg.-Batav. 1840; 



Goodsir, Edinh. Rhilos. Jiturn. xxx. p. 188; Cleland, Nat. Hist. 



Rericu; 1862, p. 183 ; Costa, Faun. Regn. Napol. Resc. tav. 03 & 04. 

 Orthagoviscus fasciatus, Bl. Schn. p. 511. 

 Cephalus mola, Risso, Ichth. Nice, p. 60. 



ortliagoriscus, Risso, Fur. Mcrid. iii. p. 173. 



brevis, Shaw, Gen. Zool. v. 2, p. 432, pi. 175 ; Ncill, Werner. 



Mem. i. p. 546; Turt. Brit. Faun. p. 116; xMitch. Lit. ^- Rhil. 



Trans. New York, i. p. 471. 



