PLATE 100 
PLATE X. 
CYCLOPTERUS LUMPUS, 
LUMP SUCKER. 
** BRANCHIOSTEGL 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head obtuse, mouth in the anterior part : tongue short and thick, 
jaws furnished with numerous minute sharp teeth. Branch os tegeous 
Membrane with four rays : cover of a single piece. Body short, thick, 
destitute of scales. V entral fins connected : the sucker between them. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
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SYNONYMS. 
Body angulated, with bony tubercles, 
(-'yclopterus Lumpus : corpore squamis osseis angulato. GmeL 
Si/st. Nat. T. 1. p. 3. 139. sp. 1. 1473. 
^■ydopterus ordinibus tuberculorum septem. Slock. 
LhMp, Sea Owl or Cock Paddle. Will.Icht. 208. — Raiisyn. 
pisch. 77. 
*-Ump Sucker. Penn. Brit. Zool. v. 3. p. 133. sp. 57. 
1 his species frequents the British shores in the spring, and by some 
^ le flesh is thought not indifferent when broiled, or stewed, after the 
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