DUBLIN EEL. 
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which the snout was shorter than that which he takes for 
the A. acutirostris ; which circumstance has produced in me 
the supposition that the former is the kind which British 
naturalists have known by the name of Sharp-nosed Eel, and 
that the Sharp-nosed Eel of this gentleman is in truth the 
species we designate the Dublin Eel. 
The length of the specimen was two feet four inches; the 
body stout and round, broad over the back; head wide, 
rather flat, sloping forward to the projecting snout, which is 
narrow, slightly rounded above; gape moderate; under jaw 
longest, wide, but thin; the nasal tendrils wider asunder than 
in a Conger of the same size, and more slender, longer than 
in the Sharp-nosed Eel. Eye rather small, in a cavity, and 
before it a prominence just below the nostril. Cheeks full. 
Length of the body from snout to vent eleven inches and 
three fourths, from snout to the opening of the gills two 
inches and five eighths; length of the pectoral fin an inch 
and one fourth, more extended than in the sharp-nosed species, 
and not so round. Teeth in both jaws thickly set, a bed of 
them of considerable breadth in front of the lower jaw and 
in front of the palate; tongue free. Lateral line high at first, 
sloping to the middle at about half the length. Dorsal fin 
thick at the root, wide where it joins the anal to form the 
tail, and each of these fins posteriorly wider than the body. 
Colour brownish green, whitish below; the tail dark at the 
border. 
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