GYMNETRUS. GYMNETRUS. 



Generic Character. 



Corpus longissimum, com- 



pressum. 



Denies numerosi, subulati. 

 Mcmbr. branch. 4 5 ra- 



diata. 

 Pinna analis nulla. 



Body extremely long, com- 

 pressed. 



Teeth numerous, subulate. 



Gill-membrane four or five- 

 rayed. 



Anal fin wanting. 



ASCANIAN GYMNETRUS. 



Gymnetrus Ascanii. G. argenteus, corpore longitudin&lifcr 

 fusco punctato, cirris ventralibus apice dilatatis. 



Silvery Gymnetrus, speckled longitudinally with brown point*, 

 and with the ventral cirri dilated at the tips. 



Regalecus Glesne. Ascan. ic. rer. nat. t. 11. 



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IS extraordinary fish seems to have been 

 almost unknown till within the space of a few years 

 past ; nor are its characters and history yet so dis- 

 tinctly ascertained as might be wished. It is a 

 native of the northern seas, and seems to have been 

 first described by Professor Ascanius in his work 

 entitled Icones rerum natularium, $$c. The length 

 of the specimen was ten feet, and the diameter, 

 which was equal throughout the whole length, 

 v. iv. ?. , 13 



