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PALLASIAN . TR ICHOPUS. 



Trichopus Pallasii. T.fuscus albido-widulatus, corpore caudaque 

 macula utrinque nigra, pinnis I'entralibus nmradiatis longis. 



Brown Trichopus, with pale undulations, a black spot on each 

 side the body and tail, and long single-rayed ventral fins. 



Labrus pinnis ventralibus uniradiatis. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmd. 

 p. 1286. Pall. spic. zool. 8. p. 45. 



Sparus, &c. KoJreuter noi\ comm. pctrop. 9. p. 452. t. JO.y. 1. 



DESCRIBED by Dr. Pallas as a species of Labrus, 

 and by Kolreuter, in the Petersburgh Transactions, 

 as a Sparus : length about four inches : head 

 rather small, and covered with scales : mouth 

 small, ascending ; jaws extensile, and rough on the 

 edges : colour brownish, with paler undulations, 

 each side of the body and tail being marked with a 

 black ocellate spot : lateral line somewhat broken 

 or interrupted towards the tail : pectoral fins thin 

 and pale : the rest brown : anal and caudal round- 

 ish-bilobate, and spotted with white : ventral con- 

 sisting each of a long single ray : native of the 

 Indian seas, 



MONODACTYLE TRICHOPUS. 



Trichopus Monodactylus. T. argenteus, dorso subfusco, pinnis 

 ventralibus uniradiatis^ rigidis, bretibus. 



Silvery Trichopus, with brownish back, and short, single- 

 rayed., rigid ventral fins. 



Monodactyle Falciforme. Cepede. 3. p. 132. 



DESCRIBED by Cepede in a distinct genus, under 

 the name of Monodactylus. Differs from the rest 



