S U P P Ti E M E N T 



TO THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE 



HISTORY OF BRITISH FISHES. 



ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



PERCIDJE. 



COUCH'S POLYPRION. 



Polyp 



rion cernium. 



Poliiprion cernium, Cuv. et Val. Hist, des Poiss. t. iii. p. 21, pi, 42. 



M. A. Val. Mem du Mus. t. xi. p. 265, pi. 17. 

 Amphiprion Americanus, Scli^N^EID•En, Syst. Ichth. p. 205. 

 ,, Australe, „ ,, pi. 47. 



Scorpmna Masiiliensh, Risso, Ichth. p. 184. 



Stone Basse, Couch, Linn. Trans, vol. xiv. p. 81. 

 Serranus Coucldi, Couch's Serranus, Brit. Fish. vol. i. p. 12. 



Generic Characters. — A single elongated dorsal fin, the rays of the anterior 

 portion rather short and spinous, those of the secondary poition longer and 

 flexible : branchiostegous rays 7 ; small incurved teeth on the bones of both 

 jaws, on the palatine bones, and on the vomer, with some elongated teetli 

 among the smaller ones ; cheeks, operculum, the whole of the body, the base 

 of the flexible portion of the dorsal and anal fin, and the base of the tail covered 

 with small rigid scales, serrated at the free margin ; suborbital bone, pre- 



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