PLATE XLV. 
The head of this fish is of a remarkable tubular form ; the body 
slender : back armed with fifteen shark spines, and the lateral line 
composed of small, fomewhat prominent, and pointed scales. 
General colour above olive, variable, and tinged with gold, beneath 
■white. In the individual specimen, we are describing the second 
dorsal fin, or that situated at the extremity of the dorsal spines, 
contains seven rays : pectoral fin ten rays ; the ventral fins, or 
rather spines, consists each of an acute bony process : in the anal 
fin are eight rays, the first of which is short and spinous ; and the ' 
tail contains twelve rays. 
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