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or shields, finely serrated at the edges, and marked 

 along the middle of the body by small black specks : 

 head and back marked by numerous specks of a 

 rather larger size : colour of the whole fish pale 

 yellow, with a strong cast of reddish brown on the 

 top of the head and back : fins pale-yellow, speckled 

 with black : dorsal fin marked by a large black 

 spot at the tip : tail forked, and barred by rows of 

 black specks. Native of the rivers of Surinam. 



STURGEON LORICARIA. 



Loricaria Accipenser. L. elongatafusco-jla'vcsccns, ore edentulo; 



f route rotwidata, pinnis maculatis. 

 Lengthened yellowish-brown Loricaria, with toothless mouth, 



rounded front, and spotted fins. 



Loricaria maculata. L. dentibm carens. Block, t. 3/5. /. 1. 

 Plecostomus, &c. Gronov. zooph.p. \1J . n. 391. 

 Loricaria cataphracta. L. pinna dorsi umca, cirris daobus. Lin. 



Syst. Nat. p. 508. 



HABIT long and slender; not ill resembling that 

 of a Sturgeon : head large, and marked into several 

 angular divisions : mouth small, and placed beneath : 

 body mailed on each side the fore-part by a triple 

 row of scaly plates, each marked on the middle by 

 a spiny point; hinder part compressed, and mailed 

 by a single row on each side, the spiny points run- 

 ning down the back and forming a carina on that 

 part : pectoral, ventral, and dorsal fm pale yellow 

 spotted with brown : tail lunated, spotted in a 

 similar manner, with the addition of a large brown 

 patch on the lower lobe : anal fin situated beneath 



