432 SHEPPY ARGENTINE. Class IV. 



GENUS XLIII. ARGENTINE. 



Teeth in the jaws and tongue. 

 Rays branchiostegous eight. 

 Vent near the tail. 

 Fins ventral composed of many rays. 



1. Sheppy. Sphyraena parva, sive sphyrae- Argentina Sphynena. Lin. 



v as secunda species. Rondel. Syst. 518. Gm. Lin. 1394. 



227. Gesnerpisc. 883? Gronov. Zooph. No. 34Q* 



Pisciculus Romoe, Argentina L' Argentine Sphyrene. De la 



dictus. Wil. Ichth. 22Q. Cepede Hist, des Poissom* 



Rail Syn. pise. 108 ? v. 366. 

 Argentina. Arted. Synon. 17. 



A LITTLE fish, which I believe to be of this 

 species, was brought to me in 1769, taken in 

 the sea near Downing. 

 Descrip- The length was two inches one-fourth; the 

 eyes large ; the irides silvery ; the lower jaw 

 sloped much ; the teeth small ; the body com- 

 pressed, and of an equal depth almost to the 

 anal fin ; the tail forked ; the back was of a 

 dusky green ; the sides and covers of the gills 

 as if plated with silver ; the lateral line was in 

 the middle and quite strait ; on each side of the 



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