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SHORT TETROtJON. Class IV. 



into a glutinous jelly, resembling boiled starch 

 when cold, and served the purposes of glue, on 

 being tried on paper and leather. The flesh 

 of this fish is uncommonly rank : it feeds on 

 shell-fish. 



There seems to be no satisfactory reason for 

 the old English name. Care must be taken not 

 to confound it with the sun-fish of the Irish, 

 which differs in all respects from this. 



2. Short. Orthragoriscus sive Luna pis- 

 cis. Rondel. 424. 



Mola Salviani, the Sun-fish. 

 Wil. Ichth. 151. Rail Syn. 

 pise 51. 



Ostracion cathetoplateus sub- 

 rotundus inermis asper, pin- 

 nis pectoralibus horizonta- 

 libus, foraminibus quatuor 

 in capite. Arted. synon. 

 83. 



Tetrodon Mola. T. laevis, 

 compressus, cauda truncata, 

 pinna brevissima dorsali a- 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



nalique annexa. Lin. Syst. 



412. Gm. Lin. 1447. Gro- 



nov. Zooph. No. 186. 

 Brunnick pise. Massil. No. 



16. 

 Sun-fish, from Loo. Borlase 



Cornwall, 267. -tab. 26. Jig. 



6. 

 La Lune. Block ichth. iv. 



83. tab. 128. 

 Le Tetrodon Lune. /3. De la 



Cepede Hist, des Poissons, 



i. 514. 



JL HIS differs* from the former, in being much 

 shorter and deeper. The back and the anal 



* Linnceus and de la Cepede consider this and the preceding 

 as constituting but one species. Block denies that it has any 

 teeth, but merely a division of the jaws which resembles two 

 teeth. Ed. 



