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MAILED GURNARD* 



colour red, with the abdomen yellowish : scales 

 small : dorsal and lateral line aculeated : from the 

 latter pass numerous perpendicular convex lines of 

 division, terminating rather obtusely both above 

 and below, and not ill resembling the form of pine- 

 leaves : fins and tail yellowish : ventral fins red, 

 with an obscure blueish cast : native regions un- 

 known. 



MAILED GURNARD. 



Trigla Cataphracta. T. rubra, rostro bifurcato elongato, digitis 



binis, corpore octogono cataphracto. 

 Red Gurnard, with lengthened forked snout, double fingers, 



and octagonal mailed body. 

 Trigla cataphracta. Lin. Cornuta. Rondel. Gesn. 



Length about twelve inches : snout deeply bifur- 

 cate, with the forks of considerable length, and 

 rounded at their tips: body octagonal, and com- 

 pletely mailed by bony scales : the longitudinal rows 

 or divisions of the body being marked by so many 

 serrated or aculeated lines: beneath the throat a 

 pair of ramified cirrhi : pectoral fins and tail pale 

 brown: the other fins pale yellow, and nearly trans- 

 parent : rays of the first dorsal fin running out 

 beyond the membrane : native of the Mediter- 

 ranean* 



