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fishes, thoracic. 23. Coitus; 
23. COT rUS. Head broader than 
body, fpinou.s : eyes vertical, furoi'j' 
ed with a iiiftitant rriembrane 1 SK 
membrane 6-rayed : body round, 
out fcales, tapering towards the 
dorfal fins one or more. ' 
mailed i upper jaw with 2 uprigli^ 
puraaia. fpinesi throat with numerous cirri. ,§• 
Pogge. yi 
Inhabits tht European coafts; 6 inches lone • feeds o” J> 
j crabs and other aquatic infefts ; body brown, 
white. , ' 
iAiid large, boi^y, rugged ; eyes lateral, round, pupil 
yellow; iiiaiitA beneath, lunate; Upper Jaw longed. U 
nu.nerous, fmall, both in the jaws and palate : tong^^ 
trim ; aperture of the gias large, the covers of on® P' tl>^ 
iody covered with (Irong, bony cruRs, divided into 
ends of whid. project into a Riarp point, forming pricM/.V 
■* down the back and fides ; back with 3 or 4 black ’jit< 
tyraUtne in the middle of the body, R«ight; 'S 
the head; dor/a/ hns 2, the rays of the firft fpinous, 
lecond loft, both cinereous tvith fquare black^ I'pots i 
. roundiRi, lioary, large, ipotted with black; 
* br^chrd^ ’ rouhded, 
5 > ?• P^f^‘ t6 : tent, 2 : an. j : caud. 11 ray*' 
duadricor. Four bony protuberances in the middle of the heal* , f 
F0ur-hor’>‘\f^ 
Inhabits the Baltic and Greenland fets ; afeends rivefUy' 
tceds on worms and infefts ; is a bold voracious ' ^cC- 
duiky clouded with brown, beneath dirty.yeUoW ; 
rlZt perpetually agitating- 
Fmale more dulky, beneath yellow-brown 
P^V- 9 , M: pcct. ty: vent, e^x an. se^x caud. 
Body. rfmooih; threat wiA numerous cirri. 
