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OBLONG TETRODON. Class IV. 



GENUS XII. TETRODON. 



Body" very deep, and as if cut off in the 



middle. 

 Mouth small. 

 Teeth, two only in each jaw. 



1. Oblong. Sun-Fish from Mount's Bay. 



Borlase Cornwall, 268. tab. 



26. Jig. 7- 

 Ostracion laevis. Gronov. 



Zooph. No. 185. 

 Tetrodon Mola truncatus. fi. 



Gm. Lin. 1448. 

 Tet. inermis, laevis, compres- 



sus, oblongus, cauda bre- 



vissima, pinna dorsali ana- 



lique annexa, spiraculis Iu- 



natis. Retz. nov. act. Stockh. 



6. 2. p. 116. 

 Cephalus oblongus. C. corpore 



oblongo truncato. Shaw 



Gen. Zool. v. part ii. 439- 

 Le Tetrodon Lune. De la Ce- 



pede Hist, des Poissons, i. 



50Q. tab. 22. Jig. 2. 



RONDELETIUS has given this genus the 

 synonym of Orthragoriscas, as if it was that 

 which Pliny* intended by the same name; but 

 the account left us by that naturalist is so brief, 

 that we do not think ourselves authorized to 

 place it as a synonymous creature. He says 

 no more than that it was the greatest of fish, 

 and that it grunted when it was first taken, 



* Lib. xxxii. r. 



