Defer. 
60 LESSER LAMPREY: GlhfGIV: 
murena of Ovid, Pliny, and others, for which we 
want an Engli/b name. 
The words Lampetra and Petromyzon, are but of 
modern date, invented from the nature of the fith; 
the firft a Lambendo petras, the other from Mérpos, 
and Mucaw, becaufe they are fuppofed to lick, or 
fuck the rocks. 3 
1. The LESSER DASE Ree 
La Lamproye d’eaue doulce. Petromyzon fluviatilis. = Lz, 
Belon. 67. 
Lifts 394 
Lampredz alterum genus. Ge/- Nein-oga, natting. Faun. fuec. - 
ner pifc. 597+ No. 290. Petromyzon pinna 
Lampetra medium genus, W7/, dorfali pofteriori angulata. 
Ith. 106. Raii fyn. pife. 35. Ibid. 
Neunaugen. Kram. 282. Gronov. Zooph. No. 159. 
HIS fpecies fometimes grows to the length of 
ten inches. 
The mouth is formed like that of the preceding, 
On the upper part is a large bifurcated tooth; on 
each fide are three rows of very minute ones: on 
the lower part are feven teeth, the exterior of which 
on each fide is the largeft. 
The irides are yellow. As in all the other fpecies 
between the eyes, on the top of the head, is a {mall 
orifice of great ufe to clear its mouth of the water 
that remains on adhering to the ftones, for thro’ 
that orifice it ejects the water in the fame manner 
as cetaceous fifh. 
On the lower part of the back is a narrow fin, 
beneath that rifes another, which at the beginning is 
high 
