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PISCES JUGULARES. 
FISHES WHOSE VENTRAL FINS ARE PLACED MORE FORWARD THAN THE 
PECTORAL FINS, OR UNDER THE THROAT. 
CALLIONYMUS. 
GENERIC C 
Caput labio superiore duplicate). Oculi ap¬ 
proximate. Mem brand branchiostega vi. 
Apertura nucha foraminibus respiranle. 
Opercula clausa. Corpus nudum; pinna 
ventrales remotissima. 
HARACTER. 
The upper lip doubled ; eyes near each 
odier. The branchial membrane with 
vi. rays ; the opercula closed, spiracula 
at the hind head. Body without scales; 
the ventral fins distant from the head. 
No. XLVI. 
Callionymus ccipite scabro , alepidoto ; tinea laterali carinala ; cauda Integra varia striata. 
The Callionymus with a rough scaleless head; a carinated lateral line; an undivided 
tail, streaked with different colours. 
Callionymus indicus, Linn. S. J\ r . p. 434. 
Platycephalus Spathula. Bloch , PL 42 3. 
Called by the Natives Irrwa. 
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B. vii. D. 9. 13. P. 19. V. 6. A. II. C. 16. 
The body wedge-form, very small towards the tail; squamous, rough, scales very small, orbicular, ciliate. 
The head broader than the body, long, wedge-form, depressed, without scales; but rough, and a line of small 
prickles behind each eye. The mouth terminal, large; tire under jaw considerably longer than the upper: 
both set with numerous minute, linear, sharp teeth, in many close ranks. The tongue thin, hard, smooth, 
resembling in figure and colour, the flint of a small pistol. The palate tuberculous, and set with teeth. The 
eyes vertical, small, oval, near the nose, separated by a groove or furrow. The nostrils double, very 
small. 
The opercula squamous, armed on each side with two hard, lanceolate, spines, and a softer spine near the 
point of the posterior lamina. The branchial membrane half exposed, has seven thick ossicles. 
The trunk wedge-form, depressed; the back straight; the belly protuberant but flatfish; the sides hardly 
convex; the tail very taper. The lateral line straight, supreme, carinate, rough. The anus nearly middle. 
