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BRACHIATED SCORPAENA. 



Scorpaena Brachiata. S. capite truncate subdepresso, pinnis 

 ventralibus brachio adnatis. 



Scorpaena with abrupt depressed head, and ventral fins at- 

 tached to a brachial process. 



La Scorpene Brachion. Cepede 3. p. 272. 



Greatly allied to the preceding species, which it 

 resembles in the shape of the head, the size and 

 situation of the eyes, conformation of the jaws, 

 smallness of the scales on the body, and rounded 

 tail ; but differs in being destitute of the two fila- 

 ments, so remarkable in the other species, as well 

 as in having the membrane of the dorsal fin much 

 less deeply scalloped ; while each of the pectoral 

 fins forms as it were a band, which reaches from 

 beneath the fore-part of the branchial aperture to 

 the vent, and is attached by a fleshy longitudinal 

 prolongation or root, as in some of the Gobies: 

 described by Cepede from Commerson. 



ACULEATED SCORPjENA. 



Scorpaena Aculeata. S. aculeis quatuor supra oculos, lammis 



opercvlorum spinosis. 

 Scorpaena with four spines above the eyes, and both plates of 



the gill-covers spiny. 

 La Scorpene Aiguillonee. Cepede 3. p. 268. 



Described by Cepede from specimens in the 

 French Museum : distinguished from the rest of 



