CATALOGUE 



OF THE 



SPECIMENS OF NATURAL HISTORY IN SPIRIT. 



Class AMPHIBIA. 

 Order I. PSEUDOICHTHYAS, Gray. 



Body elongate, fish-like ; covered with imbricated oval scales ; and with dorsal 

 and caudal membranes resembling fins, strengthened with soft jointed rays. 

 Legs four, rudimentary, elongated, subulate. Gill: external, under side 

 tufted ; internal, on the edge of some of the septa between the gill-openings. 

 External nostrils not enclosed in a bony case ; the internal ones between 

 the lips and the bones of the palate. Maxillae none. Intermaxillae very 

 small, with one or two teeth. Palatine teeth very large. Lower jaw with 

 large teeth. Heart with two auricles. Lungs equal. Trachea on ventral 

 face of digestive tube. Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphibia in the Col- 

 lection of the British Museum. 



Family Lepidosirenidte. 



Genus PROTOPTERUS, Owen. 



388. The Mud-fish (Protopterus annectens, Owen ; Lepidosiren annectens, 



Owen). 

 Fig. Owen, Linn. Trans, vol. xviii. p. 327 ; Osteol. Cat. Mus. Roy. Coll. 



of Surg. vol. i. p. 380. 



Hob. The river Gambia. Presented by Thomas C. B. Weir, Esq. 



This specimen of Protopterus has had its vertebral column and viscera 



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