GILT-IIKAD. 



AUANTHOPTERYGI1. 



SPAUIU/K 



THE GILT-HEAD. 



Chrysophrvs uurata, Cuv. et VAI.FAC. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. vi. p. 85, 



pi. 145. 



Aurc.tu Rotuleletii, WII.I.UGHHY, p. 307, tab. V. 5. 

 Spurns (iiinita, LiNN*:us. 



,, ,, BLOCH, pt. viii. pi. 266. 



,, ,, Gilt-head, PENN. Brit. /ool. vol. iii. p. 327, but not 



plate 66. 

 FI.EM. Brit. An. p. 211, sp. 136? 



Generic Characters. Body deep, compressed ; dorsal fin single, the rays 

 partly spinous, the posterior rays flexible ; teeth of two kinds, six incisors in 

 each jaw, conical, with rounded and oval molar teeth, in four rows above and 

 three rows below ; cheeks and operculum covered with scales ; branchiostegous 

 rays 6. 



THE GILT-HEAD is one of the fishes most abundant 

 in the Mediterranean : from Gibraltar it is found as far 

 south as the Cape of Good Hope, and northward along 

 the coast of Spain and France ; thence to the bold shore 



The family of Marine Bream. 



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