272 TRIFURCATED TADPOLE FISH. Class IV. 



GENUS XXVII. 

 TADPOLE FISH. 



Head depressed, very large. 



Body much compressed. 



Mouth very wide. 



Beards one or more on the lower jaw. 



1. Tritur- Batrachoides* trifurcatus, in Trifurcatad Hake. Br. Zool. 

 CATED. foveola dorsali pinna; primae iv. No. 84. 



rudimento, serie verrucarum Blennius tridactylus. De la 



9—1 utrinque ; cirro men- Cepede Hisi des p i ssons . v . 



tali. Gent. Magaz. June p. 486. 



I8O9. Pennant's Tour in Blennius trifurcatus. Shaw 



Wales, ed. 1810. vol. iii. p. Gen. Zool. iv. 174. 



41 & 420. Turtons Brit. Fauna, p. 93. 



A HE different specimens, which have been 

 seen of this fish, measured from eight to twelve 

 inches. Its color is a deep brown, except the 

 foldings of the lips, which are snow-white ; the 



* So named from the resemblance it bears to the Balrachus 

 (from Barf a^oj, a frog) a name as old as Pliny for the Rana 

 piscatrix, Toad fish, or sea Devil of Ray and Willughly, the io- 

 phicus of Linnoeus, and the Angler of the present work. H. D. 



