FISHES. APODES. 1-4. 87 



ORDER I. APODES. APODAL, 

 1. ANGUILLA. Eel. 

 I. A. vulgaris. Olive-brown, more or less silvery under- 

 neath : lower-jaw longer than the upper. 



Common Eel. Shaw Zool. \y.p. 1,5. lab. 1. 



Body in stagnant waters blackish, yellowish beneath, fometimes 

 varied with brown lines, very slippery: head final!, narrowed on 

 the forepart : nostrils fmall, round, with another lengthened one 

 beneath each eye : teeth fmall, sharp, numerous : iris golden, pupil 

 blackish: aperture of the gilU femilunar : jaws with feveral 

 minute pores each side : trunk a little compressed : laUraMin? 

 straight : skin covered with foft oblong fcales : ptctoral-fins fmali, 

 oval, paler, with about 19 rays : dorsal, caudal, and anal united. 



% A. Conger, . Brown, silvery beneath : lateral line 

 speckled with white : lower-jaw rather shorter than 

 the upper. 



Conger Eel. Shaw Zool. iv. t. 1. Will, ichth. t. G. 6. 



Much refembles the last, except in being of a larger size, fome- 

 times growing to 10 feet long and weighing 100 pounds and up- 

 wards : body with whitish patches on the sides : lateral-line broad : 

 iris silvery : edges of the dorsal and anal fins black : pectoral-Jins 

 19 rayed. 



3. A.Myrus. Dusky, with elongated snout: fin surrounding 

 the body whitish edged with black. 



Rondeletian Eel. Arted. Gen. 24. syn, 40. 



Head narrowed on the fore-part : sides marked with a few yellow 

 specks: upper-lip with 2 short tentacula : each side the nech a 

 : branchial orifice. 



g. OPHIS. SeaSerpent. 

 4 O. maculala. Silvery, with dark-brown spots. 



Spotted Sea Serpent. Shaw Zool. iv.p. 22. tab. 2. Bloch t. 154. 



Body 3 or 4 feet long, slender, silvery-white with a triple row of 

 dark-brown oblong fpots : head slender : eyes moderate : mouth wide: 

 teeth curved inwards : pectoral-Jins fmall, white : tail naked, round, 

 pointed. Berkenhout. 



3. ANARICHAS. Wolf-fish. 



5. A. Lupus. Livid brown, with transverse darker 



bands. 



Ravenous Wolf-fish. Brit. Zool. iii. t. 24. Donovan's Fishes, t. 24. 



Body 4-7 feet long, tapering', compressed : head strong, sloping ; 

 mouthwide : teeth 5 or 6 in each jaw, conical, and standing far out, 

 with lesser-ones within them • grinders clofe to the canine teeth in 

 the upper-jaw, but detached in the lower ■ eyes oblong, iris silvery, 

 pupil black : skzn slippery : vent large, nearer the head' ': pectoral-fin 

 18-rayed : dorsal reaching from the hind-part of the head nearly to 

 the tail, 73-rayed ; anal extending as far as the dorsal, 46-rayed : 

 tdil rounded of 13-18 rays. 



.4. AMMO.DITES. Launce. 



6. Ammodites Tobianm. . . 



Sand Launce. Br. Zool. iii. t. 25. Donovan's Fishes t. 32. 



Body 9 or 10 inches long, slender, fquare, rounded at the sides : 



lower-jaw longer than the upper : throat with 2 oblong rough bones: 



, eyes fmall, .iris silvery, pupil black,; gill-cover silvery ,of 4 pieces , 



