Willoughby’s char. 
263 
fin at its root not overlapped by the gill-covers, the rays 
thirteen or fourteen; ventral nine or ten, situated below the 
two last rays of the dorsal. Scales thin and small. Colour on 
the sides of the back dark sea-green, blackish on the back, 
and on the greater part of the dorsal and caudal fins. Sides 
with a slight silvery shade, passing into a beautiful deep red 
on the belly; pectorals greenish, passing into reddish posteriorly, 
the upper border white; ventral fins red, with a white outer 
margin and a blackish shade within the margin; anal reddish, 
with a blackish shade over the whole of the middle, and with 
a white anterior margin; sides of the head silvery, the lower 
parts minutely dotted with black. Number of the vertebrre 
fifty-nine. The length rarely exceeds ten inches, but it has 
been known above fifteen. 
