102 SHORT SUN-FISH. Claf IV 
There feems to be no fatisfactory reafon for the 
-Englifo name, yet to prevent confufion from the. 
multiplication of titles, we chufe to retain that it has 
been fo long known by; but care muft be taken not 
to confound it with the fun-fifh of the [ri/, which 
differs in all refpects from this*. 
I. Th SHORT SUN FIGED 
Orthragorifcus fiveLuna pifcis, Tetraodon mola. T. lavis, 
Rondel. 424. compreflus, cauda truncata, 
Mola Salviani,theSun-fith. Wil. pinna breviflima dorfali ana-. 
Icth. 151. Raii fyn. pife. 51. lique annexa. Lin. ft. 412. 
Oftracion cathetoplateus fubro- Gronov. Zooph. No. 186. 
tundus inermis afper, pinnis Sun-fifh, from Loo. Borlafe 
pectoralibus horizontalibus, Cornwall. 267. tab. 26. 
foraminibus quatuor in ca- fig. 0 
pite. Arted. /ynon. 83. 
HIS 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 fe- 
milunar, but oval. The fituation of the fins are 
the fame in both. 
This fpecies was taken off Penzance, and is en- 
egraved in Dottor Borla/e’s Natural Hiftory of Corn- 
wall, from one of Mr. Yago’s drawings. Both 
kinds are taken on the weftern coafts of this king- 
dom, but in much greater numbers in the warmer 
parts of Europe. 
* Vide p. 78. 
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