TOOTHED LORICARIA. 37 



the middle of the body, and plain or unspotted : 

 colour of the whole fish dull yellowish brown, with 

 a few distant bands of deep-brown spots : surface 

 roughened with small points. Native of the Indian 

 seas, growing to the length of twelve or fifteen 

 inches or more. 



TOOTHED LORICARIA. 



Loricaria Dentata. L. elongata fusco-Jlavcscens, ore dcntato, 



cirroso, naso subacuminato. 

 Lengthened yellowish-brown Loricaria, with toothed, cirrated 



mouth,, and slightly pointed snout. 



Plecostomus dorso monopterygip, &c. Gronov. zooph. p. 127. 

 Loricaria Cataphracta. L. dentata, pinna dorsi unica. Block. 



t. 375. /. 3. # 4. 

 Loricaria cataphracta. L. pinna dorsi unica, cirris duolns. 



Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 508. 



THIS is so very nearly allied to the preceding, 

 that it might readily pass for the same species, 

 but diners in having the mouth furnished with 

 teeth, and in having a slightly pointed snout : the 

 region surrounding the mouth is also roughened by 

 numerous small filaments or processes: the abdo- 

 men is covered rather with middle sized scales than 

 with the broad processes of the former fish; and 

 lastly, the first ray of the tail is much longer in 

 proportion, equalling in some specimens, the length 

 of the whole body. It is a native of the Indian 

 seas. 



