124 S T U R G E O N. Class IV. 



VIII. STUR- One narrow aperture on each fide. 

 GEON 



The mouth placed far below, tubular and without 



teeth. 



The body long, and often angular. 



,53. Stur- OvuTKog. Athen, Lib. VIII. Rail fyn. fife. H2. 



GEON. 3-1^^, K:m7r\]<rm^. Afhen,p. Schirk. Kram. 383. 



2nV Acipenfer corpore tuberculls 



Acipenfer? Plinii Lih. IX. fpinofis exafperato. ^r/^./.^«. 



c. 17. O'vidii Halieut.? 9^- 



L'Erturgeon. Belon, 89. Acipenfer fturio. Lin. /yjf. 

 Acipenfer. RondeL 410. Gef- 403- ^^''f' ^^- ^^^^- 54- 



ner pifc. 2. Tab. 18. Jig. 2. 



Sturio.' Gelner pifi. Stor. /'^z^/?. iS^fr. No. 299. 



Stoer. Schcne^cehh, 9. -S"^^- '^''-f- ^H. loi. r^^. 29. 

 Sturgeon. Wil lah^ 239. No. 19. 



THAT this is the *Ovi3Ko; q^ Bcrion., as quo- 

 ted by Athenaus, is very probable, as well 

 from the account he gives of its form, as of its na- 

 ture. He fays its mouth is always open, with 

 which it agrees with the Sturgeon, and that it con- 

 ceals itfelf in the hot months : this fhews it to be a 

 fifh of a cold nature, which is confirmed by the 

 hiftory of the European fifn of this fpecies, given 

 by Mr. Forfter *, in his EfTay on the Volga, who 

 ficjates that they are fcarceever found in that river 



* Phil. Tranf. LVII. 352. 



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