HO SPUR-FINNED PIKE. 



are edged with small sharp teeth: eyes large: 

 fins pale : tail sharply forked, with the lower 

 lobe rather longer than the upper. Native of the 

 Indian and American seas : considered as an ex- 

 cellent fish for the table, according to some. 



SPUR-FINNED PIKE. 



Esox Chirocentrus. E. maxilla inferiore longiore, spina utrinqite 



thoradca super pinnas perforates. 

 Pike with the lower jaw longer than the upper, and the breast 



armed on each side by a spine over the pectoral fin. 

 Esox Chirocentrus. Cepede. 5. p. 3 1 7. 



SLIGHTLY described, and figured by Cepede from 

 the manuscripts of Commcrson : habit like that of 

 the common Pike: lower jaw longer than the upper 

 but rounded at the tip : teeth sharp and rather 

 large in both jaws: scales middle-sized: dorsal fin 

 single, and placed opposite the anal : on each side 

 the thorax, immediately over the pectoral fin, a 

 very strong and slightly curved spine about two 

 thirds the length of the fin, and of which it appears 

 to be in reality no other than a kind of first ray 

 standing separate from the fin itself: tail forked. 

 Native of the Indian seas. 



