PLATE 63 
PLATE XLIII. 
PERCA LABRAX. 
BASSE. 
* PISCES THORACICI. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
/ 
Jaws unequal. Teeth acute, and incurvated. Gill covers of three 
plates, scaly ; the upper plate serrated. Seven rays in the gill-mem. 
I’tane. Lateral line arched with the back. Scales hard and rough. 
J'ins spinous. 
SPECinC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONA'MS- 
Second dorsal fin with fourteen rays : back dusky, blueish, belly 
silvery. 
1’erca labrax : pinna dorsalis radiis quatuordecim dorso subfusco 
cserulescenti abdomine argenteo. 
J*erca Labrax : pinnas dorsalis secunds radiis 14. Linn. Syst% 
Nat. Mus. Aid. Fr. 2. p. 82. 
^erca punctata. Gmel. Si/st. Nai. 1311. sp. 4. 
