Class IV. 



GREY GURNARD. 



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GENUS XXXIX. GURNARD. 



Nose sloping. 



Head covered with strong bony plates. 

 Rays branchiostegous seven. 

 Appendages three slender at the base of the 

 pectoral fins. 



Gurnatus seu Gurnardus gri- 

 seus, the Grey Gurnard. 

 Wil. Ichth. 279. Raii syn. 

 pise. 88. 



Trigla varia rostro diacantho, 

 aculeis geminis ad utrum- 

 que oculum. Arted. synon. 

 74. 



Trigla Gurnardus. Tr. digitis 



ternis dorso maculis nigris 



rubrisque. Lin. Syst. 497. 



Cm. Lin. 1342. Gronov. 



Zooph. No. 283. 

 Le Gurneau. Block ichtk. ii. 



111. lab. .58. 

 La Trigle Gurneau. De la 



Cepede Hist, des Poissons. 



iii. 



l. Grey. 



JLHE nose is pretty long, and sloping; the end Descrip- 

 bifurcated, and each side armed with three short 

 spines ; the eyes very large ; above each are 

 two short spines; t^e forehead and covers of 

 the gills silvery tinged with green ; the last 

 finely radiated ; the teeth small, placed in the 

 lower and upper jaws, in the roof of the mouth, 

 and base of the tongue ; the nostrils minute, 

 and placed on the sides of the nose. On the 



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