FISHES. 481 



24. SCLENA AQUILA, Cuv. Hafs Gos. The Maigre. 



The colour of the Scandinavian species, as described 

 by Nilsson, ' ' silver grey-white underneath ; back ' 

 brownish ; fins red-brown/' is so much plainer than 

 in the Mediterranean fish, that, as Couch observes, 

 it seems to afford a proof that a change of water or 

 season will materially modify the appearance, as we 

 know to be the case, indeed, with many other fishes. 

 Only one specimen of this fish has as yet been added to 



the Scandinavian fauna, and this was washed ashore in Lands - 



krona, in the south of Sweden, December 24, 1852. It was 



five feet long, weighing seventy-two pounds. 



Fam. 4. SPARIDJ:. 



In form resembling the fresh- water breams, but with spiny 

 rays in the long single dorsal fin. Cheeks soft ; edges of all 

 the gill covers without teeth or spines; no teeth on the 

 palate ; body oval, compressed, covered with large scales ; 

 no scales on the vertical fins ; anal very short, with three 

 spiny rays. 



Gen. Pagellus, Cuv. 



All the front teeth fine and card like; molars small, 

 in two or more rows. 



25. PAGELLUS CENTRODONTUS, Cuv. Pagell Med Flack. The 



Common Sea Bream. D. 



Has much the form of the fresh water rud.d ; body 

 height about one-third of the length; colour reddish, with 

 a large black spot on the commencement of the lateral line, 

 which, however, is not apparent in the younger fish, or 

 "chads" of about 6 in. long (Couch) ; attains a length 

 here of 18 in. Br. 6 ; D. 12,13 ; A. 3,12 ; P. 17 ; V. 1,5 ; 

 C. 18. 



Appears to be the most common of all the species here, 

 as every where else. Is occasionally taken off the southern 

 coasts both of Sweden and Norway, principally in the 



summer. 



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