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FISTULARID-E. 



ACANTHOPTERVGII. 



FISTULARIDX*- 





THE TRUMPET-FISH. SEA-SNIPE„ 



BELLOWS-FISH. Comwall. 



Centriscus scolopax, Linn«us. 



Block, pt. iv. pi. 123, fig. 1. 

 Snipe-nosed Trumpet-fish, Pknn. vol. iii. p. 190. 

 Snipe-fish, Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 63. 

 Trumpet-fish, Flem. Brit. An. p. 220, sp. 170. 

 CuviER, Regne An. t. ii. p. 268. 



Generic Characters, — Snout produced ; mouth small ; teeth wanting : body 

 compressed, oval, covered with scales ; two dorsal fins, the rays of the first 

 spinous ; ventral fins united ; abdomen carinated. 



The Trumpet-fish is, in a British series, the last of 

 the Acanthopterygian fishes, or those having some of their 

 fin-rays spinous. 



One specimen of this singular-looking fish, recorded in 

 the eighth volume of the Transactions of the Linnean 

 Society to have been taken in England, was thrown ashore 

 at St. Austle's bay, in Cornwall, early in the year 1804. 

 This example was five inches long. 



* The family of tube-mouthed fishes with spiny fin-rays. 



