Class IV. GREY GURNARD. S71 



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- ternis dorso maculis nigris l. Grey. 



seus, the Grey Gurnard. rubrisque. Lin. Syst. 497. 



Wil. Ichth. 279. Rati syn. Gm. Lin. 1342. Gronov. 



pise. 88. Zooph. No. 283. 



Trigla varia rostro diacantho, Le Gurneau. Block ichth. ii. 



aculeis geminis ad utrum- III. tab. 58. 



que oculum. Arted. synon. La Trigle Gurneau. De la 



74. Cepede Hist, des Poissons. 



Trigla Gurnardus. Tr. digitis iii. 



J- HE 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 ; the 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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