Class IV. 



RED SURMULLET. 



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GENUS XXXVIII. SURMULLET. 



Head compressed, steep, and covered with 

 scales. 



Rays branchiostegous three. 



Body covered with large scales, easily drop- 

 ping off. 



TpjyXvj? Arist. Hist. an. Lib. 



ii. Oppian Halieut. i. 59O. 

 TgiyXy Zco'tpfcov. Athenceus, 



Lib. vii. 325. 

 Mullus. Ovid Halieut. 123. 



Plinii Lib. ix. c. 17. 

 Triglia. Salvian. 235. 

 Le Rouget barbe*, Surmurlet. 



Belon 170. 

 Mullus barbatus. Rondel. 29O. 



Gesner pise. 565. 

 Petermanneken, Goldekeu. 



Schonevelde, 47« 



Mullus Bellonii. Wil. Ickth, 



285. Rail Syn. pise. 90. 

 Trigla capite glabro, cirris ge- 



minis in maxilla inferiore. 



Arted. synon. 71. 

 Mullus cirris geminis corpore 



rubro. Lin. Syst. 4Q5. Gm. 



Lin. 1338. Gronov. Zooph. 



No. 286. 

 Le Rouget. Block ichth. x. 81. 



tab. 348. /. 2. 

 Le Mulle rouget. De la Ce- 



pede Hist, des Poissons, iii. 



385. 



J.HIS fish was highly esteemed by the Ro- 

 mans, and bore an exceedingly high price. The 

 capricious epicures of Horace's* days, valued it 

 in proportion to its size; not that the larger 



1. Red. 



* Sat. lib. ii. s. ii. 33. 



