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mi: 
NATURAL HISTORY 
or 
BRITISH FISHES. 
PLATE XCVII. 
ZEUS LUNA. 
OPJIf, OR KING riSlI. 
** PISCES TIIORACICI. 
GENERIC CHARACTEil. 
H 
caj compressed, sloping ; upper lip arched by a transverse mem- 
fi'atie T 
1 ongue subulate : gill membrane with seven perpendicular 
fL 1 
’ ne lower transverse : body compressed, thin, shining: rays of 
^'^'I'al fill in general filamentous. 
SPECinC CHARACTER 
and 
SYNONY'MS. 
^'fiated . body smooth: back violaceous, and sides green, with 
obi 
Silvery spots : fins falcated, and scarlet. 
^EUs T , ' 
NA ; cauda luiiari, corpore lasvi, dorso violacco, laterlbui 
viridibiis argcnteo guttato, pinnis falcatis coccineis 
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