Class IV. 



COMMON EEL. 



191 



Div. III. 

 BONY FISHES. 



Sect. I. 



APODAL. 



GENUS XVI. EEL. 



Body long, slender, and slippery. 

 Nostrils tubular. 

 Fins, back, ventral, and tail, united. 

 Aperture to the gills small, and placed behind 



the pectoral fins. 

 Rays branchiostegous ten. 



Ey%\\vs. Arist. Hist. an. Lib. 



iv. e. 11. vi. 14. 16. Oppian 



Halieut. i. 5l6. iv. 450. 

 Anguilla Plinii Lib. ix. c. 21. 

 L'Anguille. Belon, 2Q 1 . Obs. 



55. 

 Anguilla. Rondel, fluv. 198. 



Gesner pise. 40. 

 Ael. Schonevelde, 14. 

 The Eel. Wil. pise. 109. Raii 



syn. pise. 37- 

 Mursena unicolor maxilla in- 



ferior longiore. Arted. syn. j. CoMMOif. 



39. 

 Murtena Anguilla. Lin. syst. 



426. Gm. Lin. 1133. Gro* 



nov. Zooph. No. 166. 

 Ahl. Faun. Suec. No. 301. 



Aal. Kram. 387- 

 L' Anguille. Block ichth. iii. 



3. tab. 73. 

 La Murene anguille. De la 



Cepedc Hist, des Poissons, 



ii. 226. 



A HE eel is a very singular fish in several 

 things that relate to its natural history, and 



