CATALOGUE OF BRITISH FISH. 121 



L AciPENSER Sturio. Cominon Sturgeon. B. M. 



Acipenser Sturio, Linn. Si/st. Nat. i. 403. Block, Iclith. 88. 



Block, Schneid. St/st. Ichth. 347. Turt. Brit. Faun. 114. 



Don. Brit. Fisk. iii. pi. 65. Flem. Brit. An. 173. Jen. Man. 



493. Yarr. Brit. Fisk. 2 ed. ii. 475. Bonap. Icon. Faun. 



Ital. iii. 87, t. f. 1. Parn. Wern. Mem. vii. 403. Gray, Cat. 



Cart. Fisk.B.M. 13. 

 Sturio, The Sturgeon, Will. Hist. Pise. 239, t. P, 7, f. 3. 

 Sturgeon, Penn.Brit. Zool. iii. 109, pi. 19, n. 53. 

 Common Sturgeon, Penn. (ed. 1812), iii. 164, pi. 22. 

 L'Acipenseve Esturgeon, Lacep. Poiss. i. 411, pi. 20, f. 1. 



Hab. — Coast and Rivers. 

 River Thames. 



2. Acipenser latirostris. Broad-nosed Sturgeon. 



Acipenser latirostris, Parn. Trans. R. S. E. xiv. pi. 4. Parn. 



Wern. Mem. vii. 405, pi. 39. Yarr. Brit. Fish. 2 ed. ii. 479. 



Gray. Cat. Cart. Fisk. B. M. 15. 

 Acipenser Sturio, sen..'* Bonap. Cat. Met. 21.* 



Hab. — Coast. (Firth of Forth.) 



3. Acipenser huso. Isinglass Stm-geon. 



Acipenser huso, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 404. Thomp. Ann. ^ May. Nat. 



Hist. xvi. 213, 1845, 1847, 172. 

 Huso ichthyocolla, Bonap. Cat. Met. 22.* 



Hab. — Danube (a doubtful native). 

 Coast of Cork. /. Humpkreys. 



Fam. II. CHIM^RIDiE. 



Chimaeridae, Swains. Lardn. Cycl. Fish. ii. 193. 

 Chimeridae, Gray, Syn. Brit. Mus. 1842, 150. 

 Acanthorhina, Latr. Fam. R. A. iii. 1826. 

 Acanthorrhini, Jen. Man. 326. 

 Holocephala, Chimaeridae, Bonap. Specchio Gen. 7. 

 Holocephali, ilfii//. Wiegm. Arch. 1845, 137. 



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