PLATE 99 
PLATE LXIIL 
CENTRISCUS SCOLOPAX. 
SNIPE, OR TRUMPET FISH. 
***** PISCES BRANCHIOSTEGI. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head produced into a very narrow snout : mouth without teeth, 
l°Wer jaw longest. Aperture of the gills repandate. Body com- 
passed : abdomen carinated. Ventral fins united. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. --.33 
Body scaly, and rough : tail straight, and extended. 
p. 
e Ntriscus Scolopax ; corpore squamoso scabro, cauda recta 
extensa. Gron. Zooph.p. 128. n. 395. — Gmel. 
Syst. Nut. T. 1. p. 3. p. 1461. sp. 2. 
Pistes Scolopax pinna dorsali anteriore quinqueradiata, rostro Ion- 
gissimo maxilla inferiore operculato. Linn . Syst. 
Nat. X. I. p. 329. n. 8. 
Ha]i S tes aculeis 2. loco pinnarum ventralium, solitario infra anum. 
Art. Gen. 54. syn. 82. 
^ntriscus scolopax. Bloch aiif. Fifch. I. p. 55. n. 1 , t. 123. f. 3. 
V °E. in, i 
