J24 FISHES. CHONDROPTERIGIOU^. eg.Priftis. 
6 g. PRISTIS. Snout long, flat, fpino^j^ 
down the edges : /piracies 4-5, lateral 
body oblong, roundifh, covered 
a rough, coriaceous fkin : mouth h^' 
neath ; no/rils before the mouth, hal* 
covered with a menabrapaceous flap ' 
behind the eyes 2 oval orifices : 
tral fins approxiamate : anal o. ^ 
Saw-ff' 
Antique- Snout with 1 8—24 ftrong fpines each fide. 
rum. Inhabits the Oceans 15 feet long; body above bjackifi') 
neath whitini. Linn. TranJ. ii. 276. 
Head flat on the ^e-pzrt ; Jnout 5 feet long ; teeth 
eyes large, iris golden ; fpirarUs 5 ; fir ft' dorjal fin opP^., . 
the ventral, iecond midway between the firft and the ’ 
pcHoral broad, long ; caudal lliort. 
Teffinaius SnOut with 25 — 34 narrower fpines each fide. 
Inhabits the Ocean ; rclciiiblcs the laft, but the fnout is 
derer and narrower at the bafe ; fpines longer, fleuderer. 
Linn. Tranf. ii. 278. 
Snout with 28 broad cufpidate fpines e^ch fide. 
Habitation uncertain ; a ipecimen of the fnout is preferv’C 
the Leverean Mufeum, : fpines lharp at the point like a 
gcon’s lancet. 
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fur- 
Mterodon. Spines on the fnout fmall, hardly perfoMting the ficin. , 
Habitation unknown ; a complete ipecimen is in the LeveP^ 
Mufeum: 28 inches long ; fnout 10 inches long ; dorfal h”- 
Biuch hollowed out at the back-part. 
Cirratus. Snout citrate in the middle ; fpines long, with intefmcdl^‘° 
fjiorter ones. 
Inhab'f^ 
