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APODAL 

 MALACOPTERYGIL 



MUR.ENID7E. 



MURMNIVM, 



THE BROAD-NOSED EEL. 



Anguilla latirostris, Broad-nosed Eel, Yarrell, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1831, 



pp. 133 and 159. Zool. Journ. 

 vol. iv. p. 469. 

 „ ,, ,, „ Jenyns, Man, Brit. Vert. p. 476, 



sp. 164. 

 ,, ,, A, pimperneaux, Cuvier, Regne An. t. ii. p. 349. 



Glut Eel, BowDiCH, Brit. Fr. Wat. Fish, No. 22. 



The Broad-nosed Eel is almost as common a species 

 as the Sharp-nosed Eel, but is immediately distinguished 

 from it by the much greater comparative breadth of the 

 head ; the representation at the top of the page is therefore 

 confined to that part of the fish which exhibits the best 

 distinctions ; and the vignette to the Snig Eel, page 808, 

 represents in the left-hand figure of the three heads the cra- 

 nium of the Broad-nosed Eel, to show this character as it 

 exists in the bone. This Eel is the Grig or Glut Eel of 

 Pennant, who says, " They have a larger head, blunter nose, 

 and thicker skin than the common sort." It is, probably, 

 also the Frog-mouthed Eel of the Severn, referred to by 

 Dr. Hastings, in his Natural History of Worcestershire, 



