THE 



MAILED GURNARD. 



Generic Character. 



Head covered with long plates. 

 Branchiojiegous membrane with feven rays. 

 Appendages fituated before the pectoral fins. 



Specific Character, &c. 



GURNARD with two pe&oral appendages, elon- 

 gated forked fnout, and mailed body. 



THE MAILED GURNARD. 



Anion gft the mailed or cataphracted filh, the fpecies 

 here reprefented is one of the molt elegant. It is the 

 only fpecies of Trigla which is diftinguifhed by this 

 peculiar kind of coating ; all the others yet known be- 

 ing covered with fmall fcales. The form of the head 

 is Angular ; the fnout or upper jaw being widely bifur- 

 cated, with the divifions or proceffes obtufe. This 

 forked appearance of the head is alone fufficient to dif- 

 tinguifli this fifh from the Cottus cataphra&us and fome 

 others, with which an incurious fpe&ator, not attend- 

 ing 



