1H8 



LONG TAILED SERRANUS. 



Serranus pkceton. Cuv. et VAL. 

 PLATE XIX. 



Le Merou paille en queue, Cuv. et Valen. Hist. Nat. des 

 Poissons, ii. 309. 



D. 9.11 ; A. 3.9 ; C. 14 ; P. 17 ; V. 1.5. 



THIS fish has been figured from a specimen 

 in the Jardin du Roi, where it exists without any 

 note of its habits or native country. It is in 

 length about six inches, and in its dried state is 

 of a uniform dull tint. The singular character of 

 this fish is in the tail, which has the two centre 

 rays lengthened, and held together by a membrane 

 which covers them like a sheath, and which extends 

 into a narrow filament equalling the body in 

 length. 



