EEL, 
GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Body long and slippery. 
Nostrils tubular. 
Eyes covered by the common skin. 
Aperture to the gills small, and placed behind the head or 
pectoral fins. 
Gill membrane ten-rayed. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Muimena Anguilla. M. maxilla inferiore longiore, corpore 
unicolore. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. I. 
p. 1133. 
Lower jaw longer than the upper j body 
of one colour. 
Muraena unicolor, maxilla inferiore lon- 
giore; aperturis branchialibus, pinnis 
pectoralibus utrinque. Gron. Zooph. 
p. 40. no. 66 . 
Common Eel. . . Bloch , pi. 73. Penn. Brit. Zool. 3. p. 142. 
no. 63. Shaw Gen. Zool. 4. p. 16. pi. 1. 
This well-known fish inhabits both rivers and stao-- 
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nant waters, and is sometimes found in lakes and 
salt marshes. In the day-time it commonly re- 
