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APPENDIX. V. 



GENUS *XXVIII. REMORA. (P. 287.) 



Head furnished above with a flat, ovate, trans- 

 versely sulcated shield. 

 Body without scales. 

 Rays branchiostegous, six. 



1. Mediter- Echineis, Plinii HI. ix. c. 15. L,e Remore, Block Ichth. r. 



RANEAN. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



Belon, 440. 



Remora. Rondel. 436, 



Remora Imperati Zuyger. Wil. 



Ichth. lig. 

 Rail Syn. Pise. 71, 



IO9. tab. 172. 

 Echineis Remora. Gm. Lin. 



1187. 

 Art. gen. 15. jS^re. 28. 

 JDe la Cepede Hist, des Pois- 



sons, iii. 147. 



[THE Remora or Sucking fish grows to the 

 length of about eighteen inches. The mouth 

 large, furnished with numerous small teeth; 

 the lower jaw longer than the upper; the 

 eyes small, the irides yellow ; the color of the 

 body an uniform brown ; the skin smooth, but 

 marked with numerous pores. On the head is 

 a singular oval shield, by which the fish ad- 

 heres with great tenacity to any flat surface, 

 and sometimes in considerable numbers to the 

 sides of ships, which gave rise to the fabulous 



