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LIST OF BRITISH FISHES. 



The Comber Wrasse. Labrus comber. 



The Rainbow Wrasse. Julis Mediterranea. 



The Gilt Head. Crenilabrus tinea. 



Tlie Goldfinny. C. cornubicus. 



The Gibbous Wrasse. C. gibbus. 



The Scale-rayed Wrasse. C. luscus. 



Family Fisiularidm. 

 The Trumpet-fish. Centriscus scolopax. 



Order II. — Malacopterygii Abdominales. 

 Family Cyprinidce. 

 The Common Carp. Cyprinus carpio. 



The Crucian Carp. 



The Gold Carp. 



The Barbel. 



The Gudgeon. 



The Tench. 



The Bream. 



The White Bream. 



The Ide. 



The Dobule Roach. 



The Roach. 



The Dace. 



The Graining. 



The Chub. 



The Red-Eye. 



The Azurine. 



The Bleak. 



The Minnow. 



The Loach. 



The Spined Loach. 



The Pike. 

 The Gar-fish. 

 The Saury Pike. 

 The Flying-fish. 



The Sly Silurus. 



C. gibelio. 



C. auratus. 



Barbus vulgaris. 

 Gobio fluviatilis. 

 Tinea vulgaris. 

 Abramis brama. 

 Abramis blicca. 

 Leuciscus idus. 



L. 

 L. 

 L. 

 L. 

 L. 

 L. 

 L. 

 L. 

 L. 



dobula. 



rutilus. 



vulgaris. 



Lancastriensis. 



cephalus. 



erythrothalmus. 



caeruleus. 



alburnus. 



phoxinus. 



Cobitis barbatula. 

 Botia taenia. 



Family EsocidcB. 



Esox lucius. 

 Belone vulgaris. 

 Scomber-esox saurus. 

 Exocetus volitans. 



Family Siluridm. 



Silurus glanis. 

 Family Salmonida. 



The Salmon. 



The Bull-Trout. 



The Salmon-Trout. 



The Parr. 



The Common Trout. 



The Great Lake Trout. 



The Northern Charr. 



The Welsh Charr. 



The Smelt. 



The Grayling. 



The Gwyniad or Schelly. 



The Vendace. 



The Argentine. 



Salmo salar. 

 S. eriox. 

 S. trutta. 

 S. salmulus. 

 S. fario. 

 S. ferox. 

 S. umbla. 

 S. salvelinus. 

 Osmerus eperlanus. 

 Thyraallus vulgaris. 

 Coregonus fera ? Cuv. 

 C. Willughbii. 



Scopelus Humboldii. 



Family Clupeida. 



The Pilchard. 

 The Herring. 

 Leach's Herring. 

 The Sprat or Garvie. 

 The White-Bait. 

 The Twaite Shad. 

 The AUice Shad. 

 The Anchovy. 



Clupea pilchardus. 

 C. harengus. 



C. Leachii. 



C. sprattus. 



C. alba. 



Alosa finta. 

 A. communis. 

 Engraulis encrasicolus. 



Ordeu III. — Malacopterygii Subrachiati. 

 Family Gadida. 

 The Common Cod. Morrhua vulgaris. 



The Haddock. 

 The Bib. 

 The Poor. 

 The Speckled Cod. 

 The Whiting. 

 The Coal-Fish. 

 The Pollack. 

 The Green Cod. 

 The Hake. 

 The Ling. 

 The Burbot. 

 The Three-bearded Rock- J 

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The Five-bearded Rockling. 

 The Mackerel Midge. 

 The Silvery Gade. 

 The Torsk or Tusk. 

 The Forked Hake. 

 The Lesser Forked Hake. 



' Morrhua aeglefinus. 

 M. lusca. 



M. minuta 



M. punctata. 



Merlangus vulgaris. 

 M. carbonarius. 



M. poUachius. 



M. virens. 



Merlucius vulgaris. 

 Lota molva. 

 L. vulgaris. 



Motella vulgaris. 



M. quinquecirrata. 



M. glauca. 



M. argenteola. 



Brosmius vulgaris. 

 Phycis furcatus. 

 Raniceps trifurcatus. 



Family Pleuronectida. 



The Plaice. 

 The Flounder. 

 The Common Dab. 

 The Lemon Dab. 

 The Long Rough Dab. 

 The Craig Fluke. 

 The Holibut. 

 The Turbot. 

 The Brill. 

 Muller's Topknot. 

 Block's Topknot. 

 The Whiff. 

 The Scald-Fish. 

 The Sole. 

 The Lemon Sole- 

 The Variegated Sole. 



Platessa vulgaris. 

 Platessa flesus. 

 P. limanda. 



P. microcephalus. 



P. limandoides. 



P. pola. 



Hippoglossus vulgaris. 

 Rhombus marinus. 

 Rh. vulgaris. 



Rh. hirtus. 



Rh. punctatus. 



Rh. raegastoma. 



Rh. Arnoglossus. 



Solea vulgaris. 

 S. pegusa. 

 Monochirus linguatulus. 



Family Cychpterida. 



The Cornish Sucker. 

 The Bimaculated Sucker. 

 The Lump Sucker. 

 The Unctuous Sucker. 

 Montagu's Sucking Fish. 



Lepidogaster Cornubiensis. 

 L. bimaculatus. 



Cyclopterus lumpus. 

 Liparis vulgaris. 

 L. Montagui. 



Family Echeneidce. 

 The Common Remora. Echeneis remora. 



Order IV. — Mai/Acopterygii Apodes. 



Family MurmnidcB. 

 The Sharp-nosed Eel. Anguilla acutirostris. 



The Broad-nosed Eel. 



The Snig. 



The Conger. 



The Muraena. 



The Anglesey Morris. 



The Beardless Ophidium. 



The Sand-Eel. 



The Sand-Lance. 



A. latirostris. 



A. mediorostris. 



Conger vulgaris. 

 Muraena Helena. 

 Leptocephalus Morrisii. 

 Ophidium imberbe. 

 Ammodytes Tobianus. 

 Am. lancea. 



Order V. — Lophobbanchii. 

 Family Syngnathida. 



The Dorse. 



M. 



callarias. 



The Great Pipe-fish. 

 The Deep-nosed Pipe-fish. 

 The ^quorial Pipe-fish. 

 The Snake Pipe-fish. 

 The Worm Pipe-fish. 

 The Short-nosed Hippo- 

 campus. 



Syngnathus acus. 



S. typhle. 



S. asquoreus. 



S. ophidion. 



S. lumbriciformis. 



- Hippocampus brevirostris. 



