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PLATE LXI, 
SALMO ALPINUS. 
CHARR. 
ALPINE SALMON. 
*** PISCES ABDOMINALES. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head smcodi, and compressed. Mouth large : lips small: tongue 
hite, cartilaginous, and moveable : teeth in the jaws, and upon the 
^ ^ * Eyes m °derate, and lateral. Branchiostegous membrane with 
four to twelve rays ; cover of three plates. Body long, covered 
rounded and very finely striated scales: back convex: lateral 
ne straight, and nearest to the back: posterior dorsal fin fleshy 
without rays : ventral fin of many rays. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Back black, sides blue ; belly fulvous. 
Mo Alpinus : dorso nigro, latetibus caeruleis, ventre fulvo, 
Linn. Fn. Suec. 349.— Gmel. 1370. sp. S. 
mo vix pedalis pinnis ventris rubris, maxilla inferiore paulo longiore. 
Arted. Gen. 13. syn. 25. sp. 52. 
Charr. Brit. Zool . 3. p. 26 5. 
