FISHES. ABDOMINAL. 41. Amia. 42. SilunJS' 
41. AMIA. flattened, *bony, 
naked, appearing as if fexoriate : 
in the jaws and palate, rrumerq^ 
Iharp, ere6i : cirxi 2, near the nofti'^^' 
^ilUmemhrane ;2-rayed: bod,y{d^'i’ 
Tail with a black fpot, • ft. 
Inhabits Cavolinay in frefli waters ; body roundifli j 
dom eaten. . 
Cill-covers ohtufe, bony ; gidle.t with 2 bony plates, 
the centre ; lateral line ftraight ; pectoral not 
the ventral; ventral placed behin4 the e(ji)ilibriuin i 
Jong, Hoping ; i«z7 rounded, 
42, SILURUS. Head naked, large, 
coinprefled : mouth * furnilhed 
cirri refembling the feelers of *|, 
fefts: gape very large, extending \ l 
ntoft the whole length* of the he^^j 
lips thick : jaws furnilhed with 
tongue thick, fmooth, very^fhort : ,v , 
fmall : gill-membrane with 4 — 1 7 
body ‘elongated, coinprefled, 
fcales, mucous : lateral line near ^ 
back : firfl; ray of the dorfal or , , 
ral fins ferrate with reverfed fpineS* 
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A, Cirri 2.^ 
. Second dorfal fin flefliy*; cirri bony, toothed. , 
Inliabits rivers of Afia ; feeds on fmaller filhes, and gro"’^ 
large fize. - 
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