PLATE 7 \ 
PLATE LXXXVIII. 
SALMO THYMALLUS. 
GRAYLING. 
*** PISCES ABDOMINALES. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Lead smooth, and compressed. Mouth large: lips small: tongue 
Lte, cartilagihous, and moveable : teeth in the jaws, and upon the 
°ngu e . h* yes moderate, and lateral. Branchiostegous membrane 
ta ^ 10rn f°ur to twelve rays; cover of three plates. Body long, 
°'ered with rounded and very finely striated scales: back convex : 
lter al line straight, and nearest to the back : posterior dorsal fin 
fleshy Without rays : ventral fin of many rays. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
^ !'P e ‘ jaw rather longest : first dorsal fin with about twenty-three 
) > la.ge, and varied with violaceous and red: body silvery, with 
cinereous lines. 
A L M q 'p 
ahymallus: maxilla superiore longiore, pinna dorsal 
prima radiis sub 23. magna violaceo-rubrotpji 
variegata corpore argenteo cinereo lineatis. 
