Class IV. COMMON EEL. l&j 



Div. III. 

 BONY FISHES. 



Sect. I. 



APODAL. 



GENUS XVI. EEL. 



Body long, slender, and slippery. 

 Nostrils tubular. 

 Fins, back, ventral, and tail, united. 

 Aperture to the gills small, and placed behind 



the pectoral fins. 

 Rays branchiostegous ten. 



'E.y^Kvs . Arist. Hist. an. Lib. feriore longiore. Arted. syn. j Common. 



iv. c. 11. vi. 14. 16. Oppian 3Q. 



Halieut. i. 51 6. iv. 450. Mursena Anguilla. Lin. syst. 



Anguilla Plinii Lib. ix. c. 21. 426. Gm. Lin. 1133. Gro- 



L'Anguille. Belon, 291. Obs. nov. Zooph. No. 166. 



55. Ahl. Faun. Suec. No. 301. 



Anguilla. Rondel, fluv. 198. Aal. Kram. 387- 



Gesner pise. 40. L' Anguille. Block ichth. iii. 



Ael. Schonevelde, 14. 3. tab. 73. 



The Eel. Wil. pise. \0Q. Raii La Murene anguille. De la 



syn. pise. 37- Cepede Hist, des Poissons, 



Muraena unicolor maxilla in- ii. 226. 



A HE eel is a very singular fish in several 

 things that relate to its natural history, and 



