WRASSES. 
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Genus CORIS®. 
Head naked , fairly pointed. Body oblong , compressed, with comparatively small scales. More than 50 scales in 
the lateral line, which is unbroken. Spinous rays in the dorsal fin 9, branchiostegals 6. 
THE RAINBOW WRASSE. 
corns julis. 
Fig. 2. 
Length of the head from 25 to 28 per cent, greatest depth of the body from IV to 20 per cent of the length of 
the body. Number of scales in the lateral line about 75. Above and beloiv the lateral line, at its straight part 
at the beginning of the tail, 8 rows of scales. A dark-blue spot on the flap of the gill cover. 
6 The first spinous rays in the dorsal fin are elongated, being the longest in the whole fin, and, between the first 
and the third or fourth ray, the fin-membrane is marked with a black spot. The length of the spinous rays 
in the anterior part of the dorsal fin increases as they advance (dong the fin, the first ray is the shortest, and 
in this sex there is no black spot developed on the fin-membrane. 
Fig. 2. The Rainbow Wrasse ( Coris julis). and £• 
Natural size. Two of the type specimens of Labrus paroticus of Linn^us. 
R. hr. 6; D. A. P. V. V 5 ; C. b x + 12 + 0 ; 
4 8 
L. lat. 73 — 75 c ; L. tr. abd. — — — ; L. tr. caud. —. 
20 — 25 8 
Syn. Labrus palmaris varius, dentibus 2 majoribus maxillae superi- 
oris, Artedi, Ichth., Gen., p. 34; Syn., p. 53. 
Labrus Julis, Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. X, Tom. I, p. 284; GtiN- 
ther (Coris) Brit. Musi Cat., Fish., IV, p. 195; Day, Fish. 
G:t Brit., Irel. , I, p. 269, tab. LXXVII; Winther, Prodr. 
Ichtli. Dan. mar., Naturh. Tidskr., ser. 3, vol. XII p. 27. 
Labrus paroticus, Linnaeus, 1. c. 
Julis mediterranea, speciosa , Giofredi, Risso; vide GUnther et 
Day, 11. cc. 
Julis vulgaris, Fleming, Brit. An., p. 210; Cuv., Val., Hist. Nat. 
Poiss., XIII, p. 361; Kroyer, Danm. Fiske, I, p. 561. 
Julis f estiva, Cuv., Val.,; Julis melanura, Lowe; vide Gun- 
ther et Day, 11. cc. 
Obs. Both in Systema Natures (10th and 12th Edd.) and in 
Museum Aclolphi Friderici (Prodr. tomi secundi, pp. 75 and 76). 
Linnaeus has described Labrus Jidis and Labrus paroticus, the one 
after the other. In Syst. Nat. the Mediterranean is given as the 
habitat of the former, and India as that of the latter; but in Mus. Ad. 
Frid. America is given as the habitat of both. L. paroticus seems, 
0 Gunther. 1. c. p. 195. Cf. Bleeker, Atl. Ichth., I. pp. 55, 83, and 99. 
6 Of 9 specimens in the Royal Museum one has C. x + 11 + x. 
c 75 — 80, according to Gunther and Day. 
