GYMNETRUS. GYMNETRUS. 



Generic Character. 



Corpus longissimum, com- 



pressum. 

 Denies nunierosi, subulati. 

 Membr. branch. 4 — 5 — ra- 



diata. 

 Pinna analis nulla. 



Body extremely long, com- 

 pressed. 



Teeth numerous, subulate. 



Gill-membrane four or five- 

 rayed. 



Anal fin wanting. 



ASCANIAN GYMNETRUS. 



Gymnetrus Ascanii. G. argenteus, corpore longitudinalitep 

 fusco punctato, cirris ventralibus apice dilatatis. 



Silvery Gymnetrus, speckled longitudinally with brown points, 

 and with the ventral cirri dilated at the tips. 



Regalecus Glesne. Ascan, ic. rer. nat, t. 11. 



ThIS extraordinary fish seems to have been 

 almost unknown till within the space of a few years 

 past ; nof are its characters and history yet so dis- 

 tinctly ascertained as might be wished. It is a 

 native of the northern seas, and seems to have been 

 first described by Professor Ascanius in his work 

 entitled Icones rerum natularium, 8$c> The length 

 of the specimen was ten feet, and the diameter, 

 which was equal throughout the whole length, 

 v. IV. V. Ui 13 



