FISHES. BRANCHlOStEGOUS. 64.. Cyclopterus. 905 
Body naked : fnout alsove the mouth with 3 tubercles. 
Inhabits the body whitilh, compreded, tapermg to- 
wards the tail, fides with 2. bony tubercles m the middle. 
Ilc^d thicker than the body, nearly fquare, and ootufe on the 
fore-part ; irir brownilh ; Ups doubled ; edge of the ja^s 
and palate rough with very minute teeth 
middle of the body; in the place of t^e firft dorfal&nK a 
tapering, reclined long fpine ; pectoral yellow, tail 
equal ; abdominal concavity oval, undivided, the border 
with about 7 lobes each fide. . 
Dorf. 1,8: pcR. i6 ; vent, 7 : an, 7 — 8 : eaud, 10 rays. 
Body naked ; head with a fpine each fide on the hind- 
part. 
Inhabits India, 
Inhabits inaia, , 
B. 6, p. 21, V. .t,, a, c, 10 rays. 
Body naked ; head uriarrhed,’ vefy frriooth ; fins feparate. 
Inhabits Sm/t/i America : body reddilb, about 3 times as laig. 
as the Cottus grunniens ; Ikm hardifh, imooth. 
Head very large and much broader than the body, depreffed, 
flat above -.^ca oval, iris filyery-white ; moM as large as 
the head; lips thick, wrinkled, doubled, with 2 very foft, 
flefliy caruncles within ; tongue fhort, of an eliptical rounded 
SZ ; jam rounded; teeth conic, unequal ; 6 f Rovers large 
bSv • idly inflated ; dent dole to the tail,, and behind ,t the 
peduncle ; Jins loft, whitilh, the rays thick, k^c^us 
Zd cartilaginous; dorfal a little before iht anal-, pectoraC 
femicircular ; tail comprelfed, flattifli, rounded foi e-part of 
the inftrument of adhefiion flefliy and lunate, liuid-part nearly 
Dor/^S : fed. 23: vent, 4* an, 6-. caud, 10 rays. 
W«r Body naked ; uf inary Veffel double, very large,' and diftend- 
Inhab^tl^th^fca^between Kamtjekatka and America ; about a 
S ong; body olive, covered with a thick, flimy, hv^ 
rn^s ; &, back flattilh, tail fuddenly tapering behind the 
isrxrltj'’ retu^ i CTOtVfl flattifh ; 
Head thick, narrower than the body, - 
lateral, on the t<y ;~nt part pa. 
brown ; tongue thi^, S ^ minute unequal 
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