PLATE 103 
PLATE LXXVIIL 
i CYCLOPTERUS BIMACULATUS. 
B1MACULATED SUCKER. 
* PISCES BRANCH 10 STEGl. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head obtuse, mouth in the anterior part ; tongue short and thick, 
jaws furnished with numerous minute sharp teeth. Branchostegous 
Membrane with four rays: cover of a single piece. Body short, 
thick, destitute of scales. Ventral fins connected : the sucker 
between them. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Body naked, attenuated behind, and rosy ; with a purple spot sur- 
tounded by a white ring on each side of the abdomen. 
Cyclopterus Bimaculatus: corpore nudo postice attenuato 
roseus ; macula ventrali utrinque violacea albo- 
cincta. 
^Maculated Sucker. Penn. Brit. Zool. Append, v. 3. 
n. 397. t. 22. — Montagu, in Linn. Trans. Soc. 
v , 7. p. 293. 
YOE. IV. 
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