TlilGLOIDN. 
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THE RED GURNARD (S\V. KODIvNOTEN “). 
TRIGLA PINI. 
Fig. 56. 
Scales of the lateral line 70 — 73 in number , unarmed , thin, elongated upwards and downwards by processes, the 
upper ones extending to the spinous plates of the dorsal fin-groove , of which the posterior are smooth , but sharp , 
and end in a spinous point , the anterior (at the sides of the first dorsal fin) serrated. Number of these spinous 
plates 27 or 28. First spinous rag of the anterior dorsal fin tuberculated or serrated at the anterior margin. 
Length of the head 1 / i of that of the body. Length of the snout less than 1 / 2 of that of the head. Interorbital 
space concave: its breadth in young specimens 'f, in old V 7 , of the length of the head. Diameter of the eye in 
old specimens nearly 1 /f' of the length of the head. Pectoral fins somewhat shorter than the head c , whitish on the 
outside and dark blue or greenish gray on the inside. Colour of the body rose-red. 
Fig. 56. 
E. hr. 7; 1). 8. 1. 9] 1 8 1. 10; A. 16 1. 17; P. (1 + 7 + 3) + 3; 
F. 1 5 ; (J. ,.r + 9 ! ^ j + x; L. lat. 70 — 73. 
Sign. Cuculus, Willughby ( eel . Raii) p. 281 (descr., nec fig.); Art. 
( Trigla , 7) Gen., p. 45; Syn., p. 74; Lin. ( Trigla cuculus ) 
Syst. Nat., ed. -X, tom. I, p. 301 (synon. vix hujus spec, 
quia D. 9 [ 1 6 1. 17 dicitur; vide adn. infra). 
Trigla pint, Bloch, Ausl. Fisclu, part. VII, p. 130, tab. CCCLV ; 
Gthr, Cat. Brit. Mus., Fish., vol. II, p. 199; Moreau, Hist. 
Nat. Poiss. Fr., part. II. p. 266. 
Trigla cuculus, Yarr., Brit. Fish., ed. 2, part. I, p. 38; Stkind., 
Stzber. Akad. Wiss. Wien., LVI, I (1867), p, 680; Malm, 
Ofvers. Vet. Akad. Fork. 1870, p. 825; Coll., Vid. Selsk. 
Fork. Christ., 1874, Tillasgsh., p. 37; Malm, Gbgs, Boh. Fn., 
p. 397; Tillier, Mem. Soe. Sc. Nat., Math. Cherbourg, tom. 
XXII (1879), p. 276; Day, Fish. G:t Brit., Irel., part. I, 
p. 58, tab. XXIII; Lii.lj., Sv., Norg. Fisk., part. I, p. 179; 
Jord., Gilb., Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 16, p. 733. 
Ohs. Before Bloch’s time this species cannot be regarded as 
fixed with any certainty. LiNNiEUS in his Systema Natures , ed. X, 
was chiefly only Artedi’s mouthpiece; and the latter has evidently 
copied Willughby, whose figure (in Plate S. 2) represents a Trigla 
lyra. The number of rays in the second dorsal fin which Linnaeus 
(1. c.) assigns to this species, also shows that he really referred to 
the latter species; and this is also the case with Trigla cuculus in 
his Museum Adolphi Friderici , toini 2di. prodr., p. 93. Among other 
relics of this Museum the present Royal Museum still possesses five 
jars: one labelled Trigla cataphracta and containing a specimen of 
Peristedion cataphr actum; two labelled Trigla cuculus, the one con- 
taining a specimen of Trigla lyra and the other one specimen of the 
same species aud another of Trigla lucerna, var. poeciloptera ; a fourth 
labelled Trigla hirundo and containing a Trigla gurnardus ; and a fifth 
labelled Trigla hirundo, fi? and containing a Lepidotrigla aspera. 
“ Malm, 1. c. 
b In young specimens as much as 3 / 10 , according to Steindachner. 
« — 4 j 9 of the length of the body, according to Tillier. 
