GILT-HEAD. 97 



AVANTHOPTERYG11. 



THE GILT-HEAD. 



Chrysophrys aurata, Cuv. et VAI.ENC. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. vi. p. 85, 



pi. 145. 



Aurata Rondetetii, WJLLUGHBY, p. 307, tab. V. 5. 

 Spurns aurata, LINNJEUS. 



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



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



plate 66. 

 ,, Fi EM. Brit. An. p. 211, sp. 136 1 



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. 

 VOL. I. H 



