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SPUR-FINNED PIKE. 



are edged with small sharp teeth : eyes large : 

 fins pale : tail sharply forked, with the lower 

 lobe rather longer than the upper. Native of the 

 Indian and American seas : considered as an ex- 

 cellent fish for the table, according to some. 



SPUR-FINNED PIKE. 



Esox Chirocentrus. E. maxilla inferiore longiore, spina utrinqm 



thoracica super pinnas pectoraks. 

 Pike with the lower jaw longer than the upper_, and the breast 



armed on each side by a spine over the pectoral fin. 

 Esox Chirocentrus. Cepede. 5. p.3\7' 



Slightly described, and figured by Cepede from 

 the manuscripts of Commerson : habit like that of 

 the common Pike: lower jaw longer than the upper 

 but rounded at the tip : teeth sharp and rather 

 large in both jaws : scales middle-sized : dorsal fin 

 single, and placed opposite the anal : on each side 

 the thorax, immediately over the pectoral fin, a 

 very strong and slightly curved spine about two 

 thirds the length of the fin, and of which it appears 

 to be in reality no other than a kind of first ray 

 standing separate from the fin itself : tail forked. 

 Native of the Indian seas. 



