9o 5 ]FISHES. BRANCHIOSTEGOUS. 65. Lophiu^- 
65. LOPHIIJS. Head comprefled 
' wards ; teeth (harp, numerous : tong^^ 
broad, ^rraed with teeth: eyes vert|' 
cal : nojirils fmall : ^ills 3, Ihe aP^^' 
iture lateral, fimple : peroral 
broad, thick, and rriore or lefs 
bling feet ; dorjal and anal oppoi^*^^ 
and near the tail : body naked, 'covct' 
pd with a thin loofe (kin vent in 
middle of the body : lateral line o- 
fPifcato- Body depreffed; head rounded. 
rius. ■ PiJht*tg~frog. Angler, 
Inhabits mod European (eas; grows to 7 feet long ; 
]iind fand-hills or heaps of ftones, and throwing over 
(lender appendages on its head refenabjing worms, entic« 
little fifh to play round them till they come within its 
to devour them ; is very (luggith, and fwims with great 
ficulty ; above brownilh, beneath white, above with s * 
fpines, and along the edges of the head and body a multif^ 
of (hort fringed (kins. j 
Head much larger than the body ; irif radiate with white J , 
brown ; before the eyes a horny bridle ; teeth long, roout*^j^’ 
bent inwards, thofe in the upper jiatu in 3 rows, thofe io 
lower jasu which is longer, rounded, in a double rotV> 
hind-ones very large and moveable inwards ; tongue 
thick, (hprt %' palate and bpnes of the throat toothed ; 
fins (iiort, rigid, palmate, white ; tail black ; the other ^ 
bmwn ; ptBoral white beneath, edged with black, 
HorJ. 10 : pcti. 24 : vent. 5 : are. 9 ; caui. 5 rays. 
i^^atus. Body denrel|e4 ; lower jaw bearded. 
Inhabits the las ot Horthern Europe; 3I feet long; a 
voracious fi(h. 
YeJpertiUo. Body depreffed i heacj rpftratei; 
Inhabit* 
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