226 



COMMON WEEVER. Class IV. 



GENUS XXIV. WEEVER. 



Jaw lower, sloping down. 

 Gill covers aculeated. 

 Rays branchiostegous, six. 

 Fins dorsal, two. 

 Anus near the breast. 



I. Common. ApotKuiv ? Arist. Hist. an. Lib. 



viii. c. \3.JElian. Hist. an. 



Lib. ii. c. 50. Oppian Ha- 



lieut. ii. 459- 

 Draco marinus. Plinii Lib. ix. 



c. 27- Draco, Dracunculus. 



Lib. xxxii. c. 11. Araneus. 



Lib. ix. c. 48. 

 La vive. Belon. 200. 

 Draco. Rondel. 300. Gesner 



pise. 77> 78. 

 Peter-manniken, Schwertfis- 



che. Schonevelde, 16. 

 TheWeever. JVil. Ichth. 238. 



Raii Syn. pise. Ql. 

 Trachinus maxilla inferiore 



longiore, cirris destitnta» 



Arted. Syn. 71. 

 Trachinus Draco. Lin. Syst. 



453, Gm. Lin. 1157. Gro- 



nov. Zooph. No. 274. 

 Farsing, Fiassing. Faun. Suec. 



No. 305. 

 La petite Vive. Duhamel Tr. 



des Pesches. iii. 135. sect. 



6. tab. I. Jig. 21. 

 La Vive. Block ichth. ii. 1 \Q. 



tab. 6l. 

 La Trachine vive. De la Ce- 



pede Hist, des Poissons* 



ii. 354. 



X HE qualities of this fish were well known to 

 the antients, who take notice of them without 

 any exaggeration : the wounds inflicted by its 

 spines are exceedingly painful, attended with a 



