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PLATE XLI. 
' TETRODON TRUNCATUS. 
TRUNCATED SUN-FISH. 
* PISCES BRANCH IOSTEGI. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Lws bony, advanced, divided at the tip : aperture of the gills 
linear : body beneath muricated : no ventral fins. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
farmed, smooth, compressed, oblong and truncated: tail very small, 
and connected with the dorsal and anal fin. 
T 
^Trodon TRUNCATUS : inermis Isvis, compressus) oblongus 
truncatus cauda brevissima pinna dorsali 
analique annexa. Gmel. Linn. Syst. Nat. 
1448. sp. 7. 
■j. 
e trodon Mqla, truncatus (/3) — T. inermis, laevis, compressus, 
oblongus, cauda brevissima, pinna dorsali 
analique annexa, spiraculis lunatis. Hetzius 
Nov. act. Stockh. 6. 2. p. 116. 
V °L. II. 
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