FISHES. THORACIC. 22 . Gobius. 
Flumieri. Upper jaw prominent. 
Inhabits the Caribbee IJlands 
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■.lUans, 
: body round, 
tawny, yellow at the fides, beneath white, covered 
fmal fcales ; fient good and tender. 
' W T iris hlvery; aperture of the 
r f one piece ; veni in the middle of the , 
at tbe t J^tght ; ^ns yellow ; pteloral and caudd 
rays” branched ; dorfal and anal with h’*'? 
^or/, 6 , 12; ptct, 12; vent 6; an. 10: caud. 14 rays* 
Upper jaw longer ; firft dorfal fin 6-rayed, with 3 
ocelkte fpot near the bale on the hind-part. 
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Inhabits freih water rivers of ^JtaAeite.- body comprefleu. , 
— *2*^10 va* i.yr.a/i.czfe: Dodv compreu'^- 
c-f* ’ ^="ti-P«t with imbricate, 
fcales, obfeurely clouded with olive and black, beO®* 
glaucous. 
J/end a little compreffed, fubconic, blackilh, above 
curved, obtufely carinate in the middle, beneath 
iat, eyes looking obliquely upwards, pupil black, in* f'c ; 
cous teeth unequal, minute, thole of the lower 
lUeral luie nearly m the middle, ftraight, oblolete ; 
* ® f generally wi^h fplit rays, 
f WW® diaplianous ; peBoral znLentral 
■ fi It dorfal Ihort, waved with olive and brown, the r^V* ff., 
pie, letaceotKt at the tips and curved back, iecond 
greeniflr, dirty-^ at the tip, the rays annulate with g'^„„ 
and brown hrft ray f.mple ; anal long, green.ni-k*^"' 
hyaline at the tip - tail oval, greenilh, the rays f.mpl<=- 
^orf 6, 11 : pea. 16 ; vent. 6 : an.x,: caud. 22 raV*- 
Strigatus. Ventral fin divided ; firft caudal fin 6-rayed. 
nhabits the Pacife Ocean near Otaheitc; bodv compf^J 
lanceolate, covered with imbricate, fubquadrate, obh''^, 
cienate fcales; fubpellucid, pale grcenini-blue, 
whiulli, with brownifh Ibeaks behind the pefloral 
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yellow, the hind-part broader than the body ; mouth , 
lower ja&i a little fiiorter ; pala/e and tongue Imooth ! K 
an^d with lharp linear teeth turned inwards ; obhg, 
pupil black, ins filve^y.grecn ; rays of the fins moftly 
at the ends ; dorfal, Jectoral and ventral pellucid ; 
green with narrow fillets, which with the m^s are red.^' j 
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