HI 



ANGEL FISH. Class IV, 



HARK. 



Slender body growing lefs towards the tail. 

 Two fins on the back. 



Rough ikin. 



Five apertures on the fideE: of the neck. 



Mouth generally placed far beneath the end of the 



nofe. 

 ^he upper part of the tail longer than the lower. 



Without the anal fin. 



39. Akgel. ?m. Ariji. Hiji. an. Uh. V. 

 r. 5, .&:c. AthenauSilib. VII. 



P' 319- 

 Oppian Hahetit, I. 388, 742. 

 Squatina Pli-n, lib. IX. c. 12. 



Rhina, {c. Squatus. Hh. 



XXXII. r. II. 

 L'Ange, ou Angelot de mer. 



Belcn 6g. 



pifc, 899. WiU Icth. yg. 

 Monk, or Angel Fifh. Rait 



Jpi. pifc. 26. 

 Squalus fquatina. Lin. fyji. 

 398. S. pinna ani nulla, 

 caudae duabus, ore termi- 

 nal!, naribus cirrofis. Ibid^ 

 Sq. pinna ani carens, ore in 

 apice capitis. Arted. fyn. 9^. 



Squatina. Rondeh 367. Gejher Gf&na'u. Zooph. No: 151. 



THIS is the fifli which conncdls the genus of 

 Rays and Sharks, partaking fomething of 

 the charadler of both^ yet in an exception to 

 each in the fituation of the mouth, which is pla- 

 ced at the extremity of the head. 



It is a filh not unfrequent on moft of our coafts, 

 where it prowls about for prey like others of the 

 kind. It is extremely voracious, and, like the 



Ray, 



