PLATE 76 
PLATE LXXXVI I. 
ATHERINA HEPSETUS. 
EUROPEAN ATHERINE. 
*** PISCES ABDOMINALES. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Upper jaw rather flattened: gill membrane furnished with six rays : 
a silvery stripe on each side the body. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Body rather pellucid and pale : back tinged with testaceous, and 
Subieticulated with oblique lines of blackish dots. 
Atherina Hepsetus: corpore sub pellucido pallido ; dorso sub- 
testaceo, Iineis obliquis punctorum nigricantium 
subreticulato. 
•^■IHerina Hepsetus: pinna ani radiis fere duodecim. Gmel. 
Linn. So/st. nat. T. 3. p. 1396. 18 3. 
^therina Hepsetus. Linn.—JSasselq. it. 382 .—Forsk. Arab, 
p. 69. n. 101. 
Shaw. Gen. Zoel. p. 130. v. S. p. 1. 
■^therina. Gronov. onus. 1. n. 66.. 
Atherwe. Penn. Brit. Zool. v . 3. p. 328. n. 157. 
