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APODAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



MUR.ENID.E, 



MUR^NIDJt:. 



THE BROAD-NOSED EEL. 



Anguilla latirostris, Broad-nosed Eel, Yarrell, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1831, 



pp. 133 and 159. Zool. Journ. 

 vol. iv. p. 469. 

 ,, ,, ,, ,, Jknyns, Man. Brit. Vert. p. 476, 



sp. 164. 

 ,, ,, A. pimperneaux, Cuvier, Regne An. t. ii. p. 349. 



Glut Eel, BowDicn, Brit. Fr. Wat. Fish, No. 22. 



The Broad-nosed Eel is almost as common a species 

 as the Sliarp-nosed Eel, but is immediately distinguished 

 from it by the much greater comparative breadth of the 

 head ; the representation at the top of the page is therefore 

 confined to that part of the fish which exhibits the best 

 distinctions ; and the vignette to the Snig Eel, page 308, 

 represents in the left-hand figure of the three heads the cra- 

 nium of the Broad-nosed Eel, to show this character as it 

 exists in the bone. This Eel is the Grig or Glut Eel of 

 Pennant, who says, " They have a larger head, blunter nose, 

 and thicker skin than the common sort." It is, probably, 

 also the Frog-mouthed Eel of the Severn, referred to by 

 Dr. Hastings, in his Natural History of Worcestershire, 



