SAND-EEL. 317 



APODAL 



MALACOPTERYGII. ANGUILLID&. 



THE SAND-EEL. 



HORNELS, (HORNEELS ?) Edinburgh. 



Ammodytes Tobianus, Le Lan^on, CUVIER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 360. 

 ,, ,, LINNJEUS. BLOCK, pt. iii. pi. 75, fig. 2. 



,, Anglorumverus, True Sand-Eel, JAGO. RAY, Syn. p. 165, pi. 2, 



fig. 12. 

 ,, Tobianus, Wide-mouthed Launce, JENYNS, Man. Brit. Vert. p. 482, 



sp. 170. 

 Sand-Eel, DON. Brit. Fish. pi. 33 ? 



Generic Characters. Head and body elongated ; gill-openings large ; dor- 

 sal fin extending nearly the whole length of the back ; anal fin of considerable 

 length ; dorsal and anal fins separated from the caudal fin. 



WE are indebted, says Baron Cuvier, to M. Lesauvage, 

 of Caen, for pointing out -the true distinctions in the two 

 species of Ammodytes belonging to the shores of the Chan- 

 nel, A. Tobianus and A. Lancea, the first of which is rare, 

 but the second very common. 



Our excellent naturalist and countryman Ray, has given 

 us, in his Synopsis, from Jago^s Catalogue of Cornish Fishes, 

 a good figure of the true Tobianus; but it was not, I believe, 



