Teeth, 
Color, 
204, WR AB 8 Sie Clafs IV. 
It grows to the weight of four or five pounds : 
it bears fome refemblance to a carp in the form of 
the body, and is covered with large fcales. 
The nofe projeéts; the lips are large and flefhy, 
and the one turns up, the other hangs down: the 
mouth is capable of being drawn in or protruded. 
The irides are red: the teeth are difpofed in two 
rows; the firft are conic, the fecond very minute, 
and as if fupporters to the others: in the throat juft 
before the gullet are three bones, two above of an 
oblong form, and one below of a triangular fhape; 
the furface of each rifing into roundifh protube- 
rances: thefe are of fingular ufe. to the fifh, to 
grind its fhelly food before it arrives at the fto- 
mach. 
The dorfal in confifts of fixteen fharp and fpiny 
rays, and nine foft ones, which are much - longer 
than the others. 
The pectoral fins large and round, and are com- 
pofed of fifteen rays. 
The ventral of fix; the firft fharp and ftrong: 
the anal of three fharp fpines, and nine flexible: 
The tail is rounded at the end, and is formed of 
fourteen foft branching rays. 
The lateral line much incurvated near the tail. 
Thefe fith vary infinitely in color: we have feen 
them of a dirty red, mixed with a certain dufkinefs ; 
others 
