Wishes, chondropterigious. 67. chimera. 
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67. CHIMERA. Head points : JpiracU 
fingle, quadripartite, under the neck ^ 
mouth beneath, upper lip 5 -parted : 
cutting-teeth 2,, above and below : body 
lengthened; dorfal fpine fingle: tail 
ending in a flender thread, and longer 
than the body. 
^°yirofa Snout with porous folds beneath. 
Sea Monger. 
InhaS the deeps of the AUanUc and Northern ; feeds on 
crabs, raoilulc® and teflaceous animals; body long, com- 
preffed each fide, fraoolh, filvery, fpotted with brown. 
JlLd oblong, terminated by the fnout ; with a fibre 
ending in a tuft of hairs; mouth narrow ; each jam with a 
tnarwular grinder each fide; in the lower e bony plates , 
- eyes farge, llrrOunded with a curved linfe aWe and beneath, 
pupil lea-green, iris white; lateral hue white, edged each 
fide with a confluent brown one ; vent between the ventral 
fins; scnitals double; before the ventral fins are 2 Ihort 
Clawed pedicels; tail lanceolate, pinnate beneath, nearly 
twice as long as the body ; /ns brown ; dorfal 3, the lira 
mangular, with a flrong fpine before it toothed backwards, 
the next vary long, and like the third, which is oppofite the 
anal, narrower ; pectoral large ; ventral Imall. 
Snout beneath with a fmooth, 
Inhabits the Ethiopian^ Chilefe 
infleiled lip. 
and Neu Holland feas,* 
Vol. I. — 6A 
68. SQUALUS, 
