Class IV. L U M P S U C K E R. i33 



Thick body, arched back. ^^X^^^_ 



Ventral fins united. 



Four branchioilegous rays. 



Lumpus anglorum. Gejher Sy. Grono^j, Zooph. No. 57* L^KfP, 



Paralip. 25. 197. 



Seehaefs, Haffpodde. Scho- Cyclopferus Lumpus. C. cor- 



ne'velde, 41. pore fquamis olTeis angula- 



Lump, or Sea-Owl, Scotis to. Lin. fyfi. 414. 



Cock paddle. Wil. Ictb, Sjurygg-fiik, Stenbit, Quabb- 



208. Raiijyn. pifc. 77. fu. Faun, Suec. No. 320, 

 Cyclop terus. Jrted. Jynon. 



THIS lingular fifli encreafes to the weight of 

 feven pounds, and the length of nineteen 

 inches : the fhape of the body is like that of the 

 bream, deep and very thick, and it fwims edge- 

 ways. The back is iharp and elevated, the belly 

 -flat. 



The irides are of a cherry color; lips, mouth, Descrip, 

 and tongue, of a deeper red: the jaws lined 

 with innumerable fmall teeth ; the tongue very 

 thick ; along the ridge of the back is a row of 

 large bony tubercles ; from above the eye to with- 

 in a fmall fpace of the tail is another row ; beneath 

 that a third, commencing at the gills ^ and on each 

 fide the belly a fourth row, coniifting of five tu- 

 bercles like the other ; the whole ikin is rough, 



v/ith fmall tubercles. 



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