ARGENTINA. ARGENTINE. 



Generic Character. 



Denies in maxillis, lingua. , 



Membr : branch : radiis 



octo. 



Corpus ano caudse vicino. 

 Pinnae ventrales multi- 

 radiatae. 



Teeth in the jaws and 



tongue. 

 Gill-membrane with eight 



rays. 



Vent near the tail. 

 Ventral fins many-rayed. 



TOOTH-TONGUED ARGENTINE. 



Argentina Glossodonta. A.fusco-argentea, lingua palatoque m 



osseo-tuberculatiSj pinna ani octo-radiata. 

 Silvery-brown Argentine, with the back of the palate and 



tongue beset with bony tubercles, and eight-rayed anal fin. 

 Argentina glossodonta. A. pinna ani radiis octo. Lin. Gntel. 



p. 1394. Forsk. Arab. p. 68. 



HIGHLY elegant species : general size and 

 proportion that of the Mugil Cephalus or grey 

 mullet : colour dusky brown, accompanied by a 

 most resplendent silvery gloss : scales rather large, 

 rounded, and well defined, and disposed into a kind 

 of stripes, as in the Grayling : irides silvery : upper 

 jaw longer than the lower, and forming a kind of 

 obtuse snout : teeth in front of the upper jaw, very 

 numerous, small, setaceous, and disposed in two 



