FISHES. APODAL. 3. Gymno4i:orax. 
3. GYMNOTHORAX. Body eel-{liaped : 
pedoral fin o: fpiracle fingle on each 
fide, finall, oval, uncovered : mouth 
armed with numerous fliarp teeth: 
nojirik tubular. 
Brown variegated with confluent veins. Marbled G. 
Inhabits American feas ; if foot long. 
Head with 2 finall tentacula at the end of the nofe. 
' Horjal, anal and caudal fins united. 
Blackilh-brown with tranfverfe linear diflant white bands 
meeting irregularly beneath. iitnped G. 
Inhabits American feas ; 2- — 3 feet long. 
Body ferpent-like, witliout fins ; head tumid ; tentacula o. ^ 
Head deprelTed ; body varied with brown and black, and 
immediately behind the head very turgid. 
■ Palmerjion G, 
Inhabits Palmerpn Ifland ; 4—5 feet long, 10— 12 inches 
thick ; has a horrid alpeft and much refembles a lerpent. ^ 
Head finall; Up mucous; mouth horizontal, with 2 cirri 
near the noflrils ; eyes fmall, vivacious ; gape large /e/A very 
good. 
Fins o ; fnout fomew hat pointed. Blind G. 
Inhabits the Mediterranean fea. 
Body like an eel ; middle of the head with 7, fore-part with 
8, and hind-he.rd with 7 perforted points ; jaws acuminate ; 
teeth fmall, fharp; noyrils tubular, under the end of the 
nofe ; aperture of the gills under the neck *, vent nearer the 
head than the tail. 
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