170 OBLONG TETRODON. Class IV. 



GENUS XII. TETRODON. 



BodV very deep, and as if cut off in the 

 middle. 

 , Mouth small. 

 Teeth j two only in each jaw. 



1. Oblong. Sun-Fish from Mount's Bay. lique annexa, spiraculis lu- 



Borlase Cornwall, 268. tab. natis. Retz.nov.act. Stockh. 



26.fg-7- 6. 2. p. 116. 



Ostracion lsevis. Gronov. Cephalus oblongus. C. corpore 



Zooph. No. 185. oblongo truncate Shaw 



Tetrodon Mola truncatus. /S. Gen. Zool. v. part ii. 439- 



Gm. Lin. 1448. Le Tetrodon Lune. De la Ce- 



Tet. inermis, laevis, compres- pede Hist, des Poissons, i. 



sus, oblongus, cauda bre- 50Q. tab. 22. Jig. 2. 



vissima, pinna dorsali ana- 



R0NDELET1US has given this genus the 

 synonym of Orthragoriscus, as if it was that 

 which Pliny * intended by the same name ; but 

 the account left us by that naturalist is so brief, 

 that we do not think ourselves authorized to 

 place it as a synonymous creature. He says 

 no more than that it was the greatest of fish, 

 and that it grunted when it was first taken, 



* Lib, xxxii. c. 2. 



