, the Ophidium barbatum. 429 
fame rcafon, that author has placed among the Jugular es in his 
Fauna Sueclca , the fpecies of which we are now fpeaking. 
This fifh is alio very different from the Sea [nail defcribed by 
Willoughby and petiver, which is the Cyclopterus lipparis 
linn, though the fynonymy of petiver has been accepted 
by gronovius as being the Ophidium itnkerhe 
linne, in the tenth edition of his Syftema, mentions a third 
fpecies of Ophidium , which he calls Macrophthalmum ; but 
afterwards difcovered that this fpecies belonged to the genus 
of Cepola . It is another fpecies of this genus which otho 
fabricius has lately defcribed in his Fauna Grcenlandi’ca , under 
the denomination of Ophidium viride. There are two other 
fifhes, of which gronovius made a new genus, affigning to it 
the name of Majlacembelus, which comes near to the genus of 
Ophidium , though I am perfuaded it conftitutes a different 
one by the prefence of the aculei on the back. 1 fhall now 
proceed to give a defcription of that fpecies of which I am 
particularly treating, which I have written in Latin for the 
fake of perfpicuity, 
DESCRIPTIO 
OPHIDII BARBATI linn. 
B. 7, D. 124. P. 20. V. o. A. 1 15. C. . 
CAPUT comprelfum, fub-acutum, nudum, cute communi 
laxe tedium. 
Ridlus -ampins. 
Mandihula fuperior duplicata, inferiore paulo lon- 
gior. 
* The fifli mentioned by Mr. pennant, in the Britifli Zoology, tom-. 1 IL 
append, p. 346. and engraved in the tab. 93. tom. II. under the name of Ophidium 
imberhe linn-, is a fpecies of Murcena. 
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