TRIGLA. GURNARD. 



Generic Character. 



Caput magnum, loricatum, i 



lineis scabris. 

 Opercula spinosa. 

 Membr: branch: radiissep- 



tem. 



Digiti (plerisque) liber i ad 

 pinnas pectorales. 



Head large, mailed, and 



marked by rough lines. 

 Gill-covers spiny. 

 Gill-membrane seven-rayed. 



Finger-shaped processes (in 

 most species) near the 

 pectoral fins. 



GREY GURNARD. 



Trigla Gurnardus. T. grisea, digitis ternis, linea later all 



squamis rotundatis albidis loricata. 

 Grey Gurnard, with triple fingers, and lateral line mailed with 



rounded whitish scales. 

 Trigla Gurnardus. Lin. Grey Gurnard. Venn. Brit. Zool, 



JLjENGTH from one to two feet, or more : 

 colour above deep grey, with blackish and red 

 spots : beneath silvery : scales small : lateral line 

 very strongly marked, and consisting of a series of 

 larger, rounded, whitish scales with a dusky central 

 spot. Native of the European seas, and not un- 

 common about our own coasts, feeding on worms, 

 insects, &c. 



