No. V. 



The Fishes of New- York, described and arranged. By Samuel L». 

 Mitchill, M. D. Professor of Natural History in the University of 

 New-York, one of the Corresponding Secretaries of the Literary and 

 Philosophical Society, 8Cc. 



[Read before the Society 8th of December, 1814.] 



In the present arrangement I have distributed the fishes into five 

 orders; to wit, Apodal, when they are destitute of ventral fins ; Jugu- 

 lar, when these are situated on the neck ; Thoracic, when they grow 

 on the breast ; Abdominal, when they arise from the belly. 



These four orders comprehend the fishes that have bones. 



The cartilaginous fishes, which have been divided by several very 

 able zoologists into two orders, the chondropterygious, or those which 

 have leathery fins, and the branchiostegious, or such as have concealed 

 gills, are here included in a single order of Cartilaginous; making the 

 fifth division of the class. 



The fishes of New-York, as far as they have come to my know- 

 ledge, may be exhibited in the following table : 



Section I. Bony Fishes. 



APODAL. 



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Anguilla, eel, 2 species, with their varieties. 



Murssna, I 



