PLATE 40 
PLATE XXXVII. 
SPARUS RAIL 
RAY’S TOOTHED GILT-HEAD^ 
THORACICI. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Fi 
strong; grinders rather obtuse and crowded ; lips doubled, 
‘ays in the gill-membrane, the cover scaly. Body compressed ; 
line cjarved on the posterior part ; pectoral fins rounded. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
ADO 
SYNONYMS. 
Sp 
“cish M 
‘-Silvery : fins covered with scales ; two teeth larger than 
the rest in the lower jaw. 
Raii; subargenteo-cserulescens, pinnis squamatis; maxilla 
Sp inferiore longiore dentibus duobus majoribus. 
■‘'■All. S. pinnis squamatis. Bloch, 
^ “larina cauda forcipata. D. Jonston. Raii s^^n. pise. llS. 
U Q Gilt-he AD. Penn. Brit. Zool. n. 1 14. 
®®^agnole. Ihihamel Trait de Peek. T, 3. p. 26.pl. B.f. I. 
Breme dentee. S. Brama. S. pinn^ caudal! 
