PLATE 95 
THB 
NATURAL HISTORY 
OF 
BRITISH FISHES. 
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PLATE XXV, 
TETRODON MOLA, 
SUN FISH. 
BRANCHIOSTEGI. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Jaws bony, advanced, divided at the tip : aperture of the gills 
War : body beneath muricated : no ventral fins. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Unarmed, rough, compressed, round : tail very short, rounded, 
an d connected with the dorsal and anal fin : spiracles oval. 
■L-Trodon Mola : inermis, asper, compressus, rotundatus, cauda 
brevissima rotundata, pinna dorsali analique 
annexa, spiraculis ovalibus. Itets. Nov. 
Act. Stockh. 6. 2. 3. p. HI. t- 4. 
