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2. The back is rounded, naked, without scales or prickles. The 

 belly-fins stand directly behind the pectorals. The tail short, 

 fleshy, depressed at the base, cylindrical at the end ; with two, one, 

 or no back-fin, and a terminal three-cornered tail-fin. A more or 

 less long cuticular keel of skin on each side of the tail. The upper 

 eyelid adnate without a projection. The nasal flaps on both sides 

 are attached to a four-sided lobe with a free edge, which leaves only 

 the outer engle of the nostril ungirt, and is connected by a band to 

 the upper lip. Teeth pointed or flat. An electrical apparatus of 

 upright little pillars, whose flat ends shine through the skin of the 

 back and belly between the head, gills and inner edge of the breast 



fins. TORPEDININA. 



Torpedines, Mull. $■ Henle, Mag. Nat. Hist. 1838, 90. Plagiost. 



126. 

 Torpedo, Cur. Reg. An. 2 ed. ii. 396. 

 Torpediiice, Swains. Cab. Cycl. ii. 319, 1834. 



f Two back-fins. 



1. TORPEDO. 



Disk rounded, truncated before, straight or somewhat incurved. 

 Mouth crescentic, the teeth are pointed, attached to a jaw cartilage 

 and not extending outwards beyond the margin of the mouth. 

 Their base is longest transversely. The bridle of the nasal-flap 

 springs from the middle of the edge of the upper lip. The eyes are 

 remote from the spout-holes. A cornice of cuticular teeth on the 

 brink of the spout-hole. The belly-fins rounded. Two back-fins, 

 the first larger than the second; and the first above the hinder 

 part of the belly-fins, the second in the middle between the first 

 and tail-fin. Tail-fin three-cornered, with a straight hinder edge. 



Torpedo, Dum. Zool. Anal. 1806. Cuv. Reu. An. 2ed. ii. 396. 



Mull. $■ Henle, Mag. Nat. Hist. 1838," 90. Playiost. 126. 



Swains. Cab. Cycl. ii. 319. 

 Narcobatus aut Raja torpediuus, Blainv. Bull. Soc. Phil. 1816, 



121. 



1. Torpedo oculata. 



Torpedo oculata, Belon. 93. Mull. §■ Henle, Plug. 127. 

 Torpedo, Rondelet. 358, 362, a. (Copied in Ruysch, Thes. i. 

 t. 9, f. 3. Kolbe, Cap de Bonne Esp. t. 8, f. 6, 7. Gesner, 



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