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PLATE XXXV. 
COTTUS SCORPIUS. 
FATHER LASHER, or SEA SCORPIOH. 
* THORACIC I. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head broader than the body, and spinous : eyes vertical, and fur* 
ttlshed with a nictitant membrane : six rays In the gill membrane . 
'^‘ly round, without scales, and tapering towards the tall: one or 
*Qore dorsal fin. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Head armed with many spines : upper jaw rather longer than the 
under one. 
^ottus ScoRPIUS : capite spinis pluribus, maxilla superiore paulo 
longiore. Linn. Fn. Suec. 323. 
Cottus alepldotus, capite polyacantho, maxilla superiore paulo lon- 
giore. Mus. Ad. Fr. I. p. 70. 
Scorpene Belon, 242. 
Scorpang similis Comub. Father-lasher. Will, ichth, 133. 
— Raii SI/71, pise. 145. 
Scorpion Edw. glean, t. 284. 
f^ATHER-LASHER. Pe7vn. Brit. Zool. 3. p. 213. sp. 99. 
