PLATE 65 
PLATE IV. 
TRIGLA LINEATA. 
STREAKED GURNARD. , 
* THORACICI. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Head large, mailed, with rough lines. Eyes large, round, placed 
vertically. Mouth large. Palate and jaws armed with sharp teeth. 
Nostrils double. Gill-cover, a single piece radiated and spined. 
Seven rays in the gill-membrane. Body wedge shaped, and covered 
with small scales. Back straight, with a longitudinal groove serrated 
on the margins. Lateral line nearer the back, and straight. Abdo- 
men thick. Ventral and pectoral fins large, with articulated appen- 
dages before them, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYaiS. 
Striated transversely, red ; beneath white. 
Trigla LINEATA : Striata rubra, subtus alba. Lmn. Si/st. Nat. 
Gmel. p. 1345. sp. 12. 
Cuculus lineatus. The Streaked Gurnard. Raii. syn. pise. 165. 
fg. 11. — Penn. Br. Zool, 3, p. 236. n. 5. 
