SEA-BKEAMS. 



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THE COMMON SEA-BREAM (.sw. iii-ANKuyTENKN ok flackpagellen). 



SPAKUS CENTR()1)()NT['S. 



Fig. 1(5. 



LengtJt of the snout less than ^/g of the length of the head, its breadth less than V:i of the base of the anal fin, 

 the length of n-hich is, however, more than (at least equal to) half the distance from the tip of the snout to the 

 beffmning of the dorsal fin, and also more than 1^/2 times the length of the lower jaw. Longitudinal diameter 

 of the eye more than V4 of the least depth of the tail, which is less than ^,\„ of the length of the head or the 

 greatest deptli of the body. Occipital branches of the system of the lateral line distinct and including between 

 them a crescent-shaped patch of common scales. Colour of the body red with a golden and silver lustre, back 

 dark, belly whitish: in (id alt sj^ecimens a black spot on the shoulder at the Iteginning of the lateral line. 



^//h' ./. 



Fig. IG. Common Sea-Bream (Spams centrodontiis) caught in ti flounder-nc-t oft Varberg, July, 1886. 

 o. mandible with teeth. From a larger specimen. ^'\, natural size. 



natural size. 



R. br. 6; D. -^ ; A. -^ 



11 1. 12 11 1. 12 



; P. 2 + 12 + 2 1. 2 + 13 + 1; 



V. Vs; C. .r+n+x: L. kit. 15'; L. tr. — +1. 



1 4 



Syn. Blanke-Steen, Strom, Sondm. Beslr., part. I, p. 270; BniiNN., 

 Zool. Fund., pp. 127 et 137. 

 Spams centrodontiis, Delaroche, Ann. Mus. d'Hist. Kat., vol. 

 XIII, p. 345, tab. 23, fig. 11; Cuv., Val. (Pagelhis), Hist. 

 Nat. Poiss.. vol. VI, p. 180; Nilss., Prodr. Ichth., Scaiid., 

 p. 72; SCHAGERSTRUM, K. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1833, p. 138, 

 tab. 2 et 3; Kroy., Damn. Fiske, I, p. 20G; Nilss., Skand. 



Fn., Fisk., p. 115; Gthr, Cat. Brit., Mus., Fish., I, p 

 476; Steind., Stzber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LVI, I (1867), p 

 663; Coll., Vid. Selsk. Forh., Christ. 1874; Tilla?gsh., p 

 18; Cederstrom, Ufvers. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1876, N:r 4, p, 

 64; Coll., 1. c, 1879, p. 6; Id., N. Mag. Naturv., Christ. 

 Bd. 29 (1884), p. 51; Malm, Gbgs, Boh., Fn.. p. 385 

 WiNTH., Zool. Dan., Fiske, p. 14, tab. Ill, 6g. 2; Id. 

 Naturh. Tidskr. Kbhvn, ser. 3, vol. XII, p. 8; DAT, Fish 

 G:t Brit., Irel, I, p. 36, tab. XIII; Hansson, Of vers. Vet.- 

 Akad. Forh. 1880, N:r 4, p. 20; Lii.lj., Sv., Norg. Fn., 

 Fisk.. I, p. 214. 



12 



Is 



according to Kroyeb. 



according to Steindachner. 



11—13 



65 — 70 according to Lilljeborg: 67 — 70( + 5 — 7 on the caudal fin) according to Steixd.^chxer. 



