TUIGI-OIDS. 



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THE RED GURNARD (sw. hudknotkn"). 

 TiaULA I'JM. 



Fig. 56. 



Scdffs (if flie Idfcral line 70 — 7.7 iii numhcr. nnanucd, thin, cJoulidteiJ iijiirards (uid doinnrards l>if ))rorrs!<e-'<. flic 

 iipj)er ones c.rteiidini/ to tlic sj)iiioit.s plates of the dorsal fin-(jroore, of which the posterior are smooth, hut sharp. 

 (Did end in a spinous j)oint, the anterior (at the sides of the first dorsal fin) serrated. Kiimher of these sjjinoiis 

 jilaies 27 or 2'S. First spinous ra// of the anterior dorsal Jin tiilirr< uhdcd or serrated at the aiderior marf/in. 

 LenfltJi of the head '/^ of that of the hodij. Lenffth of the snout less than V., of that of fhr head. Interorhital 

 sjiare coiicare: its hrradth in i/oiinf/ sjiecimens ', ,„ in old ' -, of the h'Uf/fh of the head. I)iameter of the eijc in 

 old specimens nearhj '_,'' of the lenr/fh of the head. Pectoral fins someuliat shorter than the head', irhitish on the 

 outside and darl; blue or (/reenish f/rai/ on the inside. Colour of the hodi/ rose-red. 



Fig. 56. l!cd Gurnard {Tri'jla piiii), *,. of tin- iiaUiral size. From Stromslad, Srd June. 1860. Speciiiion belonging to Gotlicnbiirg Museum. 



J?. In: 7: /'. S. 1. 9!18 1. 10 : .4. 10 1. 17 : P. (1 + 7 + 3) + 3 ; 

 I'. '.-,: ('. .r + o('^|+,r; L. lal. 70—73. 



Si/n. Ciifiilu.^, Wii.i.LGHUV (eJ. Kaii) p. 281 (descr., nee fig.); Art. 

 {Trigla, 7) Gen., p. 45; Sijn.. p. 74: Lin. {Trigla cuctdtis) 

 Syst. Nat., cd. X, loin. 1, p. 301 (synon. vix liitjiis spec, 

 quia D. 9 10 1. 17 dicitur; vide adn. infra). 

 Ti'igla pint, Bi.ocn, Aiisl. Fiscli., part. VII, p. 130, lab. CCCLV; 

 Gtuu, Cat. Brit. Mus., Fisli., vol. II, p. I'.IO; Morkai-, Hist. 

 Nat. Poisf. Fi:, part. II, p. 266. 

 Trigla cucvliis, Yarr., Brit. Fish., ed. 2. part. I, p. 38; Steisd., 

 Stzber. .\kad. Wiss. Wien., LVI, I (1867), p, 680: Malm, 

 Ofvers. V.'t. Akad. Forli. 1870, p. 825: Coll., Vid. Selsk. 

 Forh. Christ., 1874, Tilliegsh., p. 37; Malm, Gbgs, Boh. Fn., 

 p. 397; TiLMER, Mem. Soc. Sc. Nat., Math. Cherbourg, torn. 

 XXII (1879), p. 276; Day, Fish. G:t Brit., Irel., part. I, 



p. 58, tab. XXIII: Lii.u., Sc, Norg. F;>/.-., part. I, p. 179: 

 JoRD., GiLii., Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 10, p. 733. 

 Obs. Before Bloch's lime this species cnnnol be regarded as 

 fixed with any certainty. LiXN.EUS in his Hgsleiiiu Natiinr, ed. X, 

 was chiefly only Artedi's mouthpiece; and the latter has evidently 

 copied WiLLUGHBr, whose figure (in Plate S. 2) represents a Trigla 

 li/ra. The number of rays in the second dorsal fin which LlXX-Els 

 (1. c.) assigus to this species, also shows that he really referred to 

 the latter species; and this is also the case with Trigla cuciihis in 

 his Museum Adolphi Frid(;rici. tomi 2di. prodr., p. 93. Among other 

 relics of this Museum the present Royal Museum still possesses five 

 jars: one labelled Trigla cataphracta and containing a specimen of 

 Peristedion cataphractum; two labelled Trigla cuculiis, the one con- 

 taining a specimen of Trigla lyra and the other one specimen of the 

 same species and another of Trigla lucerna. var. poeciloptera ; a fourth 

 labelled Trigla hinnido and containing a Trigla guriiardiis; and a fifth 

 labelled Trigl'i liinn, ,!,->, ,^f .ind contaiuing a Lepidr.trigln aspern. 



" Malm. 1. c. 



* In young specimens as much as ' ,„, according to Steini'ACHker. 



<■ * ,. — ■• ,g of tlic length of the body, according to TiLLlER. 



