100 PICKED DOG FISH. Class IV. 



jaws, not being lodged in fockets as the teeth of 



cetaceous fifh are. 



The tongue is large ; the eyes fmall ; the pupil 

 of a pale green -, the irides white, fpotted with 

 brown : behind each eye is a femilunar orifice. 



The back is of a pale afii color, and very 

 rough ; along the middle is a prickly tuberculated 

 line : the belly is white and fmooth. 



The perioral fins are very large, and extend 

 horizontally from the body to a great diftance ; they 

 have fome refemblance to wings, fo writers have 

 given this the name it bears in this work. 



The ventral fins are placed in the fame manner, 

 and the double penis is placed in them, which 

 forms another character of the males in this and 

 the laft genus. 



The tail is bifurcated, the upper lobe rather 

 the longed : not very remote from the end on the 

 back are two fins. 



40. Picked. '^;^:xvfe yjcXso;. Arift. Hiji, The picked dog, or hound 



an. Lib. VI. c. 10. Oppi- hih. Raii Jyn. pifc, 2i. 



p/riHalieut. I. 380. Squalus fpinax. Lin.fyji. 'T^gj, 



'ETTivxTKi Athenai, Lib.Yll. p. Sq. pinna ani nulla, dorfa- 



L' Efguillats Belon, 61. libus fpinoiis, corpore tere- 



Galeusacanthias.i^oWf/. 373. tiulculo. Ibid. 



Ge/nerpi/c. 607. Sq. pinna am nulla, corpore 



Sperhaye, Dornhundt. Scho- fubrotundo. Artsd. fynon. 



ne-velde^ 29. 94* 



Galeus acanthias five fpinax. Hai. Faun. Suec. No. 295. 



Wil.lah, 56. Grono-o, Zcoph. 149. 



Name. rr^HE picked dog filh takes its name from a 

 X flrong and fharp fpine placed juft before each 



of 



