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MUR^NID.E. 



APODAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



UUR^NIDJE. 



DRUMMOND'S ECHIODON. 



Echiodon Drummoy}dii, Thompson, Proceedings Zool. Soc. 1837, page 55. 



,, ,, „ Transactions „ ,, vol. ii. part iii. p. 



207, plate 38. 



Generic Characters. — Head oval ; jaws furnished with large cylindrical teeth 

 in front, other smaller teeth on the palatal bones and on the vomer. Gill 

 apertures large ; branchiostegous membrane with seven rays. Body smooth, 

 without scales, elongated, compressed. Dorsal and anal fins nearly as long as 

 the body ; all the rays soft ; no ventral fins ; anal aperture near the head. 



A DEAD specimen of the fisli figured above was found 

 by Dr. J. L. Drummond on the beach at Carnlough, near 

 Glenarm in the county of Antrim, in the month of June 

 1836, and from its appearance when found it was conjectured 

 that it had been cast ashore by tlie tide of the preceding 

 night, when a strong easterly Avind prevailed. The specimen 

 was given by Dr. Drummond to his friend Mr. W. Thomp- 

 son of Belfast, and being new in form, was made by the latter 

 gentleman the subject of a communication to the Zoological 

 Society, Avhich appeared in the Proceedings and Transactions 

 of that Society as here quoted. 



