' PISHES, abdominal. 45. Salmo. 857 
Fil’d rays of the dorfal fin long> fetaceous. 
*’ Inhabits Surinam s bod'y I'now-whlte. 
Head flat above ; eyes prominent ; tail forked, 
Dorf. 10: peB. 10: vent. 9: an. 10: cau 4 . — rays. . 
tin ■ 
Body white ; all the fins yellowUh. 
Inhabits the Nile. ■ v » 
Dorf. 9; peB. 13: vent. 9 : an. 26: caud. 19 rays. 
<5 
Back greenifh ; teeth in the lower jalw larger. 
Inhabits Egypt: tail fcaly at the bafe. Dorf 23. 
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Fins flightly dufted ; lateral line defcending. 
Inhabits America. j 6 
Dorf 11 ; pect. 16; vent.Sz an.^ 6 : caud. 18 rays. 
Belly ferrate; anal and caudal fins black at the bafe an^ 
edge- romnreffed, oval-lanceolate, fuban- 
^"Sro^the back, and a little gibbous from the nape to the 
&\zi givy or ‘tr 
brownifli ; is faid to bite off the legs of ducks. _ 
Head mked thicker than the body ; eyes red, funk m the or- 
bits iris golden ; «outA obtufe, large; hpf thin, the lower 
Wer in the edge of the jaWs flrong,. triangular, 
,*7contiguous, the fore-ones larger, except the 2 middle 
jaw comig , ^ reclined, alternately lefs ; 
' Se deeply carinate,^ each edge rough wntK teeth ; fangae 
fcft a little pointed and flat; gtll-covers ftnate ; abdominal 
r dle reaching from the chin nearly W the vent, fermte, with 
^ ^ honv teeth; vent m the middle of the body ; 
/liTblackifli’ at the edge ; before the dorfal ^ decumbent 
fplne, a-pointed on the hind-part; ventral fmall, the jippen. 
d^age very minute and linear ; anal large, fleihy at the bafe , 
tail large, 2-lobedi j a 
Dorf 17 : peB. 17: vent. 6: an. 32; caud. :o rajs. 
Mouth fimous. , , , ,1 . 
Inhabits South Afnerica and Titajti* 
Dorf. ill put. 13: v^nUT^t 
tin, to ; eaud. 25 rays. 
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