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FISHES. APODAL. 2. Gymnotus. 
Inhabits European feas and rivers ; is extremely voracioUS) 
ing on other fifh, crabs in their foft Hate, and pai'ticu 
carcaffes ; grows to a vaft fize ; 5 — 6 feet long. . . j-,1- 
Body above dark olive, beneath white ; eyes large, ^ 
very ; lateral line broad ; edges of the dorfal and J 
black ; peEioral Jin 19 rays. 
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Glaucous fpeckled with black, with a larger fpo^ 
near the head. 
Inhabits Arabia. pef 
Between the eyes a callous protuberance, irids golden j f 
Up fliorter ; dorfal and anal fins connefted with th® 
the caudal. 
Dorf. peB. 9 ? vent. o : an. 36: caud. 10, 
guttata. 
2. GYMNOTUS. Head with lateral op 
,er; 
cula ; 2 tentacula at the upper lip • 
covered with the common Ikin : ^ j 
membrane 5-rayed : body compi’^^ 
carinate beneath with a fin. - 
Caropo^^ 
tapering Q. 
Jtneric^' 
Naked, brown ; without dorfal fin ; tail 
point ; lower jaws fliorter. 
Inhabits frefh water rivers of America ; i — a wli ...-n ji.- 
Back blackifli fpotted with brown ; anal fin not reaching j|i« 
tip of the tail, but terminating before the caudal ; fip ^ 
tail ending in a finlefs thread ; JeJk very good. 
Darf. q: peB. lo : vent, p : an, 230 : caud. o. 1 
Jafdatuf. Naked, tranfverfely ftriped ; dorfal fin o ; tail ta- 
a point ; lower jaw longer. i ", ^ 
Inhabits Brafil ; yellowifh waved with brown, m ' 
white and covered with thin fcales. . 
Head finall ; teeth fmall, numerous ; Jns fpotted; tail 
Dorf. o: peB. 13: vent, p: an. 193 ; caud. o. 
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A.Uiu,s, 
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White; back convex without fin ; lower jaw longc*’ ’ .gP 
per lip eachi fids with 3 fmall lobe before the f 
of the mouth. , 
