LAMPRIDIDvE. 
123 
THE OP AH (sw. glansfisken). 
LAMPRIS PELAGICUS. 
Fig. 34. 
Dorsal side dark steel-blue, on the sides gradually shading into green with a lustre of silver, purple and gold, 
the operculum being especially lustrous; the ventral side rose-red; the fins vermilion; the whole body strewn with 
silvery and milk-white spots; the iris golden red. 
Fig. 34. OpaL, from the W. coast of Zealand (Denmark)- Specimen belonging to the Museum of Upsala Univ. V 6 the natural size. 
1 ( 2 ) 1 1 
R. br. 6 (7?); D. a fif; A. 1 — ; P. 2 + 23(21)+ 1; V. — ; 
51 40 Id 
C. x. + 17 + x. 
Syn. Zens cauda bifurca , colore argenteo purpureoque splendens, 
SteAm, Sondm. Beskr., I, p. 325, tab. 1, fig. 20. 
Scomber pelagicus, Gunn., Norsk. Vid. Selsk. Skr. (Trondj.), 
part. IV (Kbhvn 1768), p. 92, tab. XII, fig. 1 (nec Lin.). 
Poisson Imme, Duham., Peches, Sect. HI, p. 74, tab. XV; 
Zeus tuna., Gmel., Syst. Nat. Lin., I, p. 1225; Lacep. 
( Uhrysotosus ), Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. IV, p. 586; Gthe, 
( Lampris ), Cat. Brit. Mus., Fish., II, p. 416; Malm, Gbgs , 
Boh. Fn., p. 420; Day, Fish. G:t Brit., Irel., vol. I, p. 
118, tab. XLII. 
Zeus guttatus, Brunn., D. Vid. Selsk. Skr., Ny Sami., part. 3, 
p. 398, tab. A; Retz. (Lampris'), Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1799, 
a D. — according to Lowe. 
52—54 & 
according to Lowe. 
39—41 & 
6 A. 
