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SPAIUD.E. 



ACANrHOPTERYGIL 



SPARIDM. 



THE SPANISH BREAM. 



Pagellus eriithrinus, Cuv. et Vai.enc. Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. vi. p. 169, 



pi. 150. 

 Sparus ,, LiNNKUS. 



Eriithrinus Rondeletii, Willughby, p. 311, tab. V. 6. 



,, ,, Spanish Bream, Couch, Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. v. p. 17, 



fig. 3. 

 ,, ,, Red Sea Bream, VValcott's MS. 



Generic Characters. — The teeth in front conical, slender, numerous ; tiie 

 molars rounded, smaller in size than in the preceding genera of the SparidiB, 

 those of the outer rank the most powerful : one dorsal fin, the rays of the anterior 

 part spinous, the remainder flexible : in other respects resembling the genera 

 Chrysophrys and Pagrus. 



The Pagellus erythrinus of Cuvier and M.Valenciennes, 

 the Spanish Bream of Mr. Couch, — who, with the exception 

 of Mr. Walcott, seems to have been the only British natu- 

 ralist acquainted with its appearance on the English coast, — 

 was well known to Rondeletius and Salvianus, and is a 

 common fish in the Mediterranean Sea, and when issuing 

 thence, appears to pursue a course north and north-west. 



" This species," says Mr. Couch, " bears a great resem- 



