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PLATE XLYIII. 
SALMO EPERLANUS. 
SMELT. 
* PISCES ADOMINALES. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head smooth, and compressed. Mouth large : lips small : tongue 
H te ! cartilaginous, and moveable : teeth in the jaws, and upon the 
Eyes moderate, and lateral. Branchiostegous membrane with 
° m ^ our to twelve rays ; cover of three plates. Body long, covered 
rth rounded and very finely striated scales : back convex : lateral 
line straight, and nearest to the back : posterior dorsal fin fleshy 
ithout rays : ventral fin of many rays. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Lowei jaw longest : seventeen rays in the anal fin. 
\lmo Eperlanus . maxilla inferiore longiore, pinna ani radiis 17. 
Bloch. Fisch. Deutscht. 
Salmo Eperlanus: capite diaphano, radiis pinnae ani 17. Fn. 
Suec. 350. — Art. gen. 10. syn. 21. spec. 
4 5.' — Gron. Mils. 1 . p. IS. n. 49. — Gmel. 
Syst. Nat. 1375. sp. 13. 
Trutla edentula tota argentea, semi-diaphana, &c. Klein miss, 
pise. 5. p. 20. t. 4. /. 3, 4. 
Eperlanus fluviatilis- Gesn. Thierb. p. 189 . 
