PLATE S9 
PLATE CXII. 
SALMO SALVELINUS. 
SALVELIAN CHARE. 
**** PISCES ABDOMEN ALES. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head smooth, and compressed. Mouth large: lips small: tongue 
'white, cartilaginous, and moveable : teeth in the jaws, and upon the 
tongue. Eyes moderate, and lateral. Branchiostegous membrane with 
from four to twelve rays; cover of three plates. Body long, covered 
with rounded and very finely striated scales: back convex : lateral 
line straight, and nearest to the back : posterior dorsal fin fleshy 
without rays: ventral fin of many rays. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
First ray of the dorsal and anal fin white. 
Salmo Salvelinus : radio primo in pinna ventrali analiquc albo. 
Bloch. Fisch. Deutschl. 3. p. 149. n. 9. t. 99. 
Schwarzreuterl. Schrank. Schr. da' berl. Naiurf. Fr. U 
y>. 380. 
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