BOAR-FISH. 



169 



ACANTHOPTERYGll. 



SCOMBKR1DJE. 



THE BOAR-FISH. 



Ctipros Aper. LACEPEUE. 



CUVIER, Regne An. 1829, t. ii. p. 211. 



.!/; Uondeietii, WILMGHBY, p. 296, p. T. iv. fig. 4. 



Zeus Aper, LINN.V.US. 



Pe.rca pusilla, BRIINNICH, p. 62, sp. 79. 



Capros Aper, Risso, t. iii. p. 380. sp. 296. 



,, Proceedings Zoo). Sec. 1833, p. 114. 



Generic Characters. Body oval, compressed; two doisal fins; no spines 

 at the base of the dorsal or anal fins; scales on the body small, adherent, 

 ciliated ; mouth capable of protrusion ; teeth small, numerous ; branchiostegous 

 rays 6. 



A SPECIMEN of the Capros Aper of authors having been 

 taken in Mount's Bay, in October 1825, and a notice of the 

 occurrence forwarded to the Zoological Society, with a draw- 

 ing and description, by Dr. Henry Boas, a figure and a 

 short account of the species necessarily belong to a History 

 of British Fishes. Its right to rank among them is con- 



