THE BERGYLT, 



73 



ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



WITH HARD CHEEKS. 



THE BERGYLT, AND NORWAY HADDOCK. 



Sebastes Norvegicus, Cvv. et Valenc. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. iv. p. 327 



pi. 87. 

 Perca marina, Linn;eus. 



,, Norvegica, Muller. 



,, marina, Sea Perch, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. iii. p. 349, pi. 59. 



Serranus Norvegicus, Flem. Brit. An. p. 212, sp. 140. 



Generic Characters. — Body oblong, compressed, covered with scales ; all the 

 parts of the head also covered with scales ; eyes large ; preoperculum and oper- 

 culum ending in three or more spines ; branchiostegous rays 7 ; teeth small, 

 numerous, equal in size, placed on both jaws, the vomer, and palatine bones ; 

 a single dorsal fin, part spinous, part flexible ; inferior rays of the pectoral fin 

 simple. 



According to Cuvier, the species of Sebastes, as separat- 

 ed by himself and M. Valenciennes from the genus Scorpeena 

 of authors, so closely resemble some species of the genus 

 Serranus, as to have deceived naturalists of the first order. 

 The subject of the present article was arranged by Linnseus 

 in his genus Perca, both in the Systema Naturae and in 

 the Fauna Suecica, and was confounded with the Perca 



