block’s gurnard. 
description, which is very minute, Cuvier omits to take any 
notice of the supposed peculiarity already referred to, of the 
superior length of the first ray of the dorsal fin in Bloch’s 
figure, an apparent proof that he did not place confidence in 
the truth of that remarkable particular. 
The air-bladder, the shape and size of which offer satisfactory 
marks of distinction in the different species of Gurnards, is in 
this fish four inches in length and six inches in circumference, 
divided in front into two lobes, which are conical, but one of 
them larger than the other. 
