26 ARGENTINE heim 
Genus XXXVI. Teeth in the jaws and tongue. 
Eight branchioftegous rays. 
Vent near the tail. \ 
The ventral fins compofed of 
many rays. ARGENTINE. 
fo. The GA? R. Ge EN ot ee 
Sphyrena parva, five {phyreaa Argentina. Arted. fynon. 17. 
fecunda {pecies. Roudel. 227. Argentina Sphyrena. Lin. ff. 
Gefner pijc. 883. 518.  Gronev. Zooph. Ne 
Pifciculus Rome, Argentina 349. 
dictus. Wil. icth. 229. Raii 
Syn. pile. 108. i 
HIS fpecies was communicated to us by Mr. 
: Brunnich, who faw it taken off the ifle. of 
Sheppy, and is, according to Doctor Gronovius, com- 
mon in the mouth of the Schelde during autumn. 
Iris a {mall fifh of a flender form: the nofe is 
dharp pointed: the teeth very minute: the eyes 
Jarge. 
On the back is. one fmall fin, confiftine of ten 
foft rays ; the pectoral of about fourteen; the ven- 
tral of eleven; the anal of nine: the tail is 
forked. 
The back is green: the fides beneath the lateral 
line filvery. 
Mr. Willoughey, from whom we borrow this defcrip- 
tion, fays, that the outfide of the air bladder of this 
fith confifts of a foliaceous filvery {kin, which was 
made ufe of in the manufacture of artificial pearl. 
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