SAND-EEL. 



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Al'ODAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



ANGUILLIDjE. 



THE SAND-EEL. 

 HORNELs, (horneels ?) Edinburgh. 



Ammodqtes Tobianus, Le Lan^on, Cuvier, Regne An. t. ii. p. 360. 

 ,, ,, LiNN/tus. Bloch, pt. iii. pi. 75, fig. 2. 



,, Anglorumverus, True Sand-Eel, Jago. Ray, Syn. p. 165, pi. 2, 



fig. 12. 

 ,, Tobianus, Wide-mouthed Launce, Jenyns, Man. Brit. Vert. p. 482, 



sp. 170. 

 Sand-Eel, Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 33 ? 



Generic Characters. — Head and body elongated ; gill-openings large ; dor- 

 sal fin extending nearly the whole length of the back ; anal fin of considerable 

 length ; dorsal and anal fins separated from the caudal fin. 



We arc indebted, says Baron Cuvier, to M. Lcsauvage, 

 of Caen, for pointing out the true distinctions in tlic two 

 species of Ammodytcs belonging to the shores of the Chan- 

 nel, A. Tobianus and A. Lancea, the first of which is rare, 

 but the second very common. 



Our excellent naturalist and countryman Ray, has given 

 us, in his Synopsis, from Jago's Catalogue of Cornish Fishes, 

 a ijfood figure of the true Tobiatius; but it was not, I believe. 



