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FISHES. BRANCHIOSTEGOUS. 64. Cyclopter‘>’' 
* Lump us, 
2 . 
64. CYCLOPTERUS. Bead ohtuk: 
on the fore-part : tongue Iliort, thic^ ' 
teeth fmall, fharp, numerous : 
membrane 4-rayed ; the cover of 0^^ 
piece: body fhort, thick, witho^ 
fcales : ventral fins united into an ov^. 
concavity, forming an inftruraent 
adhefion. 
Thefe inhabit the lea ; feed on worms, infefts and the fr/ . 
Other fifh ; have no lateral line ; and are fumiihed 
the ventral fins with an oval aperture of a flelhy 
fubftance, and edged with fmall threaded appendage®* 
means of which they have the power of adhering fo 
rocks, as to be moved by fcarcely a lefs force than wou^ “ 
ftroy them. 
Body angulate by rows of lliarp bony tubercles, ^ 
Body roundilh ; tubercles flat ; belly fmooth. 
Dorfal fin very long. 
Silvery fea-grcen ; fides pale rofy; back blue. <; 
Inhabits Northern feas, 2, 3) the Indian and American ocf u 
about 2 feet long, and is exceedingly fertile ; body th; ' 
broad, variable in colours, but generally black above, 
reous at the fides, beneath orange, and rough with 7 
of hard, radiate tnbercles, of which one row is on the h*'' 
and 3 each fide on the fides. . „ 
Head fliort ; front broad ; eyes with the optic nerves 
ins white ; nojlrils Angle, tubular, near the mouth > , 
thick ; tongue moveable ; back carinate ; fides and , 
broad ; peEloral fins large, the rays orange, and as in the 0^ , 
fins, fplit at the ends and extending beyond the 
rays of the ana/ and orange, the fins cinereous? ^ . 
blackifh fpots ; befides the dorfal fin is an anterior flelhy^ 
bones cartilaginous, green ; JleJh fat and oily, but infipi“' 
The 4th variety was taken on the coaft of North Wales in ‘ 75 ' 
and is beautiTully figured and accurately defcribedin the ^ 
turalijl's Mifcellany, tab. 310, 
Horf, 21, put. 20, ventfSf an, 10, caud, 9 rays. 
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