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Corpus macrolepidotum (covered with large fcales ), 
dorfo convexo, verfus pinnam afcendente, abdomine 
tumidulo, antice carinato. 
Caput undique rquamofum, ccrpore craffius, fupra 
planiufculum. 
Os afcendens, maxilla inferiore multo longiore, 
utriufque marginibus fubtiliter lcabris. 
Palatum offeum, concavo carinatum, fubtiliffime 
fcabrum.. 
Lingua, plana, acuta, fupra bafin in medio gibba. 
Oculi magni, laterales, iride fulvo-aurea. 
Pinnae pedorales, acuminatae, radiorum XII. 
Pinnae ventrales radiorum VI, primo breviore 
aculeato, triangulares, fere fub pedoralibus, paulove 
pofterius, inter fe membranula connexae, quae abdo- 
mini frcenulo adhaeret. 
Squama lanceoiata, frcenulo pinnarum ventralium 
utrinqueaccubans. 
Pinna dorlalis dimidia dorli longitudine, caudae 
proxima, afcendens bafi fubcarnofa, radiorum XIII in 
uno, XV in altero fpecimine, quorum IV priores 
maximi, aculeati, primo breviore, membranis inter- 
ledis, unde pinna anterius ferrata. 
Pinna ani, dorfali oppolita, bafi carnofa, fquama- 
taque, feu carinae caudae produdae infidens, radio- 
rum XVIII, quorum tres priores aculeati. 
Pinna caudai fubasqualis, radiorum XVII. 
Color pifcis aureus, in dorfo fucefcens j maculae 
fufcae, tranfverfas, ad dorfuin utrinque quinae, aequi- 
diftantes, prima ad tempora, ultima prope caudam. 
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