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PLATE XII. 
MULLUS SURMULLETUS. 
STRIPED SURMULLET. 
* TII0R.4CII. ' 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head compressed, sloping, covered with scales : eyes oblong, 
placed near each other, vertical, and furnished with a nictitant mem- 
brane : nostrils double and minute ; mandibules and palate beset with 
small teeth : tongue short, narrow, smooth and immoveable. Branchii 
ostegous membrane with three rays : the covers of three plates veiy 
finely striated; aperture moderate. Body round elongated, red; 
scales large and very deciduous. 
SPECIFIC CIIARACl’ER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Two beards : body marked with longitudinal yellow lines. 
Mullus Surmulletus : cirris gemminis, lineis luteis longitudi- 
nalibus. Gmel. T. 1. p. 3. p. 1339. 
sp. 2. 
Trigla capite glabro, lineis utrinq^ue quatuor luteis longitudmallbus. 
Art. gen, 43. syn. '72. 
Mullus corpore argenteo luteo longitudinaliter lineato, desquamato 
rubro. Br'unn. pise. mass, p.ll.n.88. 
Striped Surmullet. Penn. Brit. Zool. T. 3. p. 229. n. 2, 
t. 13. 
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