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Division III . — Thoracic Fijlct, 
Section VI. 
Genus XXVI .— Cepala *■. 
Wi are now come to that divifion of the fpinous tribes 
tcrr ced by naturalifts the thoracic, from the politico. 
°f their ventral fins, which are neither placed before the 
Pe&oral, nor behind them, but directly under them up- 
° n tha thorax f. The firft genus of this dais, Liunams 
t(? rms the cepola, in the latter editions of his Sjftem of 
Mature, fromafiihof that name caught in the Mcdilcrra- 
ne an. This animal has an extremely fiender and tapering 
-Tiape ; the body being twelve inches in length, and fcarce- 
one in thicknefs : It is of a Heft colour, and ferni- 
lr anfparent, fo that the vertebras of the back appear, and 
an e afily be numbered. 
Ihe cepola has no feales ; the fides are adorned with a 
^ ltlea l row of filvery fpots. The peftoral fins are final], 
^ n d their rays fo Haider, that they are almoil impercep- 
‘hle. About an inch behind the head, rifes the dorfal 
. j ’ w hich is produced till it joins the tail, where it meets 
“ e anal fin, which is about thrice as broad ; and begins 
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r«au prima, Rond. Cepola t tenia, Lin. Sylh 
1 ' ids Syftmia Nat. ij6. 
