PLATE 105 
PLATE CL 
LOPHIUS PISCATORIUS 
COMMON ANGLER. 
***PISCES BRANCHIOSTEGI. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head compressed downwards : teeth numerous and acute ; tongue 
kroad and armed with teeth : eyes vertical : noltrils small : gills three, 
aperture lateral and simple : pectoral fins (in most species) somewhat 
resembling feet : dorsal and anal fin oppofite, and near the tail : body 
destitute of scales, and covered with a thin loose skin : vent in the 
middle of the body : no lateral line. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Body depressed : head rotundate. 
Lophius Piscatorius : depressus, capite rotundato. Linn. Fn. 
Suec. 298. — Mull, prodr. Zool. Dan. p. 38. n. 321 . 
Liphius ore cirroso. It. scan. 321. — Linn. Mils. Ad. Fr. 55. 
Gron. muf. 1. p. 51. 
Lophius capite corpore latiore. Bloch Fisch. D&ulschl. 3. p. 82. 
7 i. i. t. 81. — Le Diable de Mer. ib. 
^ ana piscatrix, &c. Borlas. Cornub. 265. t. 21. f. 3. 6. 
Load-fish, Frog-fish, Sea-Devil. Will. Ichth.p. 85. t. E. 1. 
£ 2 
