COUCH'S SEA-BREAM, 



TEETH 



COUCH'S SEA-BREAM. 



and rounded teeth of unequal size cover the roof of the 

 mouth. The fish is moderately like fig. 149, in the His- 

 toire des Poissons, but that figure does not show space 

 enough between the tall conical teeth in front of the 

 mandible, and the flat molars on the limb of the bone. 

 The specimen also has a higher front than the figure 

 referred to, with more resemblance in profile to Pagellus 

 calamus, fig. 152, of the same work. This elevation 

 of the face may be owing to age, for the specimen 

 figured in the Histoire des Poissons was only eight inches 

 long, while the one in the British Museum measures above 

 twenty. (For a side view of the mouth see p. 36.) 



D. 12+11 : A. 3 + 9: V. 1 + 5: P. 15: C. 29. 

 The last two rays of the dorsal and anal are contiguous 

 at the base, and the last ventral ray is also divided to 

 the bottom." Gray. 

 Mr. Couch says, that the 

 body is not unlike the 

 Pagellus centrodontus, but 

 is rather deeper and more 

 stout. The head is thick, 

 and the snout remarkably 

 so. The back rises high 

 above the head. The 

 colour of the front and 

 top of the head was a 

 brownish -red, that of the 

 back and fins between 

 lake and vermilion, or 

 like the Becker, except 

 the anal, which was 

 pale-yellow : the sides 

 being pale-red and the 

 belly whitish. Couch. 



