SAND-EEL. 



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APODAL 

 MALACOPTERYGII. 



ANGUILLID^. 



THE SAND-EEL. 



HOENELS, (horneels ?) Edinburgh. 



Ammodytes Tobianus, Le Lan^on, Cuvier, Regne An. t. ii. p. 360. 

 „ ,, , LiNN^us. Bloch, pt. iii. pi. 75, fig. 2. 



,, Anglorum varus, True Sand-Eel, Jago. Ray, Syn. p. 165, pi. 2, 



fig. 12. 

 ,, Tobianus, Wide-mouthed Launce, Jenyns, Man. Brit. Vert. p. 482, 



sp. 170. 

 Sand-Eel, Don. Brit. Fish. pi. 33 1 



Generic Characters. — Head and body elongated ; gill-openings large ; dor- 

 sal fin extending nearly the whole length of the back ; anal fin of considerable 

 length ; dorsal and anal fins separated from the caudal fin. 



We are indebted, says Baron Cuvier, to M. Lesauvage, 

 of Caen, for pointing out the true distinctions in the tAvo 

 species of Ammodytes belonging to the shores of the Chan- 

 nel, A. Tobianus and A. Lancea, the first of which is rare, 

 but the second very common. 



Our excellent naturalist and countryman Ray, has given 

 us, in his Synopsis, from Jago's Catalogue of Cornish Fishes, 

 a good figure of the true Tobianus; but it was not, I believe, 



