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MENDOLU. 
■whole body, but especially on tbe back and bead; and be 
particularly points out four teetb in tbe ''wer jaw that were 
larger and longer than tbe others. Observers who have been 
well acquainted with this fish in one district, have felt them- 
selves at a loss, in consequence of this diversity of appearance, 
to recognise it in another. 
Fin rays, with some difference of enumeration by different 
writers, — dorsal eleven spmous and twenty-three soft; pectoral 
fifteen; ventral one spinous and five soft; anal three spinous 
and nine soft. 
The figure we give is taken from Willoughby’s “History of 
Fishes.” 
