WRASSES. 
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Genus LABRUS. 
Dorsal fin of a uniform depth or deeper behind than in front. Cheeks and gill-covers seal//. Jaw-teeth 
free ( not united). 
THE SCALE-RAYED WRASSE (sw. brunsnultean). 
LABRUS (AC AN THO LABRUS) PALLONL 
Top of the head scaly , as well as the interorbital space. Dorsal and anal fins scaly at the base. More than 40 
scales in the lateral line. Cheeks with 5 a rows of scales under the eyes. Several rows of teeth in the upper and 
lower jaws, within the outer roiv. In the dorsal fin at least 20 spinous rays, in the anal 5 b . 
Fig. 1. Scale-rayed Wrasse ( Labrus Palloni ) from Kragero (Norway). -; :j of the natural size. 
R. br. 5; D. 21 / 8 C ; A. s / 8 ; P. 2 / 13 ; V. ] / 5 ; C. x+\Z+x\ 
L. lat. 40 — 42 d . 
Syn. Lutjanus Palloni , Risso, Icht. de Nice , p_. 263; Cuv., Val. 
( Acantliolabrus ), Hist. Nat. Poiss., XIII, p. 243, fig. 375; 
Smitt, Nord. Familjeboh , I, 281; Lilljeborg, Sv., Norg. 
Fiskar , I, p. 447. 
Crenilabrus exoletus, Risso, Hist. nat. pr. prod. Fur. mer., Ill, 
p. 329. 
Labrus luscus, Couch, Loud. Mag. Nat. Hist., V, pp. 18 and 
742 (fig. 121). 
Acantliolabrus Couchii, Cuv., Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss., XIII, p. 
248; Oberg, Ofvers. Vet.-Akad. Fork. 1870, No. 4, p. 391. 
Acantliolabrus imbricatus, Lowe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839, p. 86 
and 84. 
If any of the Scandinavian wrasses deserve to be 
distinguished from the others as a separate genus or 
subgenus, this species, first and foremost, claims that 
distinction. It is the only one that has scales exten- 
ding over the top of the head, though there they are 
small, over the neck and the inter-orbital space; the 
only one that has an angular space, covered with rows 
of scales, on the membrane between each pair of rays 
in the dorsal and anal fins p ; and lastly the only one 
that has 13 branched rays in the caudal tin. We can- 
not however assign so great an importance to these 
distinguishing points, when we see that similar varia- 
tions occur in other genera of this same family. 
The forehead is scaly in some species of the tropical 
genus Cossy phus (a kind of Rainbow Wrasse) of the 
a Sometimes 4, according to Moreau. 
6 Sometimes 4 and sometimes 6; cf. Moreau, Hist. Nat. Poiss. Fr., Ill, p. 140, and Day, Fish, of Gt. Brit, and Irel., p. 266. 
c 20 / 9 or 21 / g , according to Valenciennes (Cuv., Val., 1. c.) and Gunther (Cat. Brit. Mus., Fish., IV, p. 91 and 92). Our speci- 
men from Hittero is abnormal in one respect, the ninth spinous ray in the dorsal fin being double, i. e. on the left side there is a superfluous 
ray, furnished with basal scales and with membrane joining the ninth ray, which on this side has no basal scales. 
d In younger specimens 38, according to Lilljeborg, 1. c. 
e Hence Couch gave this species the name of Scale-rayed Wrasse. 
