SINGLE-FINNED LOPHIUS, 



Generic Character. 

 Head (and body in mofl: fpecies) deprelTed. 

 Eyes vertical. 



Teeti) numerous, minute, Jliarp. , 

 Body deftitute of fcales. 

 Shape uncouth. 



Specific Character, 

 DEPRESSED BLx\CKISH LOPHIUS ? witk 

 the head and body beneath whitifli; fin 

 above the tail fubered and ramofe. 



It is rather from its general habit than from an 

 exad agreement in point of generic charaders, that 

 I have confidered this curious animal as a fpecies of 

 Lophius. It is figured of the lize of nature, and 

 in order to convey as diftincl: an idea as poffible of 

 an animal not only in the higheft degree lingular, but 

 which is alfo entirely new, it is reprefented in three 

 different views. It is a native of the Auftralian feas. 



The more clofely this objed is confidered, the 

 more dubious it appears. Can it be the young or 

 the foetus of any of the Trichechi ? or any of the 

 cetaceous tribe ? or does it rather form a new genus 

 diftind from every other ? 



1 A magnified tooth. 



