Class IV. S H O R T D I A D O ^. 



i^x 



Ortliragorifcus five Luna 



pifcis. Rondel. 424. 

 Mola Sal'oiani, the Sun-nfh. 



f^^iL Icth. 151. Raii fyn. 



Ollracion cathetoplateus fab- 

 rotundus inermis afper, 

 pinnis pe6loralibus hori- 

 zoritalibus, foraminibus qua- 

 tuor in capite. Arted. fy- 



Tetraodon mola. T. la;vis, 

 compreiTus, cauda truncata, 

 pinaa brevilTima dorfali a- 

 nalique annexa. Lin. fyfi, 

 412. Grono^. T^ooph. No. 

 186. 



BruJtnixh pi/c. MaJJtl.'^o. 16. 



Sun-fifh, from Loo. Borlafe 

 Cornnjjall, 26j, tab, 26* 



fig. 6. 



^5. ShorTs 



THIS differs from the former, in being 

 much fhorter and deeper. The back and 

 the anal fins are higher, and the aperture to the 

 gills not femilunar, but oval. The fuuation of 

 t}\t fins are the fame in both. 



This fpecies was taken off Penzanxe^ and is en- 

 graved in Doctor Borlafe' s Natural Hiftory of 

 Cornwall^ from one of Mr, Jagoh drawings. Both 

 kinds are taken on the weftcrn coafts of this kino;™ 

 dom, but in much greater numbers in the warmer 

 parts of Europe, 



Mr. Bninnich informs us, that betvi^een Antihes 

 and Genoa^ he faw one of this fpecies He aQeep on 

 the furface of the water : a failor jumped over- 

 board and caught it. 



'tetraodon 



