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AMPHIBIA NANTES. TETRAODON. 
The trunk. The back rises a little in a straight line to the dorsal fin, and then slopes, that fin being situated 
on the beginning of the declivity. The sides are convex; the abdomen, in the state it is drawn, enormous. 
The Jins. The situation of the fins the same as in the last fish. The pectoral are large and truncate, the 
other three oblong, rounded. 
The colour: the head and trunk cineritious, spotted with oval, black, spots; the breast and abdomen white, 
with a faint yellowish tint. The fins (the pectoral excepted) spotted like the body: part of the tail is of a 
dusky red colour. 
Length of the subject described, nineteen inches. 
REMARKS. 
The drawings of the two last fish have been reduced, but the proportions strictly preserved. 
No. XXIX. 
Tetraodon, cor'pore oblongo, glabro, dor so et abdomine exceptis; linea later all insigniter 
infracta; cauda sub-lunata. 
The Tetraodon with an oblong, smooth body, the back and belly excepted ; the lateral 
line remarkably infracted ; the last sublimate. 
Called by the Natives Kappa Koorawah. 
D. 13 . P. 15 . V. o. A. io. G. 11. 
The body oblong, and somewhat wedge-form, the back and breast a little rough, the rest smooth. 
The head large, as broad as the body, depressed above, on the sides compressed, the front declining in an 
oblique line to the obtuse rostrum. The mouth terminal, but lower than the middle; the lips flaccid. The 
jaws extractile, the upper longer than the lower; teeth as usual in this genus. The tongue thick, obtuse, 
smooth, sheathed. The eyes large, roundish, high, covered by the skin of the head. The nostrils in the middle, 
between the orbit and rostrum, double, or, if single, divided by a valve. 
The trunk: the back roundish, straight, somewhat rough before the dorsal fin; the tail small and round, 
the sides a little compressed and smooth ; the belly prickly, prominent, and capable of great distention. The 
lateral line, singularly broken and irregular, is exactly represented in the figure. The anus behind the middle 
of the body. 
The fine: the dorsal and anal are nearly opposite, the former a little broader, but both lanceolate; the 
pectoral larger, obliquely truncate ; the caudal somewhat lunate. 
The colour of the back and front dark; the sides a faint greenish-yellow, which brightens towards the 
breast and belly; the belly a stone white. The fins have a yellowish colour, the lower part of the anal and 
caudal excepted, which are whitish. 
Length of the subject, to inches. 
