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FISHES. ABDOMINAL. 53. Polynemus. S67 
Back flat ; fcales large, filvery ; dorfal fin fmall and placed near 
the tail tail forked. 
Dorf. 14: pKt. 15 : vent. 6 : an. 13; caud. 15 rays. 
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'''olans. Belly not carinate, 
Inhabits the Spanijk fcas, and is very little different from the 
laft. 
Ventral fins reaching to the tail. 
Inhabits Carolina : longer than E. volitans. 
JzBr pale, with a blackilh band or two ; ventral, which in the 
firft fpecics hardly reach as far as the vent, nearly touching 
the tail the firft ray Ihort firft and lecond ray of the pectoral 
Ihort -, ’ lower lobe of the tail longer. 
Dorf. 10, pect. 15, vent. 6, an. 11, caud. 20 rays. ^ 
53. POLYNEMUS. Head compreffed, cOn 
vered with fcales; fnout very obtufe 
and prominent : gill-msmbr ane 5 7’^^y " 
ed : fins with diftinft appendages, 
Thefe are chiefly diftinguifhed from the genus Trigla, In having 
the ventral fins placed on the abdomen, and in the appendages 
not being articulate, 
^^inqua- Appendages 5, longer than the body. 
Inhabits America. 
Dorf. y, 16, pect, 16, vent. J, an. jL caud. 17 rays. 
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Appendages 7, tail entire. 
Inhabits vfwenVa. r n i rir n. . 
GilUouers ferrate; firft ray of the firft dorfal fin very Ihort; 
tail broad, (harp, 
Dorf 7, : peel. 15 : vent .'I', an. : caud. 15 rays. 
^‘^^adifeus Appendages 7, tail forked, 
Inhabits India. 
^^ehius. Appendages 5, the firft extending beyond the tail, the others 
gradually ftiortening. 
Inhabits the Pacific Ocean ; body filvery, back afhy, compref- 
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