INDIAN FISHES 
PISCES THORACICI. 
SPARUS.* 
No. CL 
Sparus cauda bijida ; pinna dorsi spinis quinque, el radiis septan setaceis longioribus ; corpore 
sub-orbiculato , lineis vittisque roseis. 
m. 
The Sparus with a forked tail; five spines in the dorsal fin, and seven long filiform rays; 
the body nearly orbicular, with rose cofour lines and fillets. 
Sparus spinifer Forsk. No. 23 . 
Called by the Natives Kooroota. 
5 J_ 3 
B r \. D. 2,3. P. 15 . V. 6 . A. 12 . G. 18 . 
The body sub-orbicular, compressed; scales compact, tenacious. 
The head compressed, front very steep, face striated. The mouth low; jaws, teeth, tongue, palate, eyes and 
nostrils, as usual in this genus. The opercula squamous, and cover the branchial membrane; rendering it 
difficult to count the ossicles. 
The trunk. The back arched, carinate; the breast and belly less arched; sides compressed; tail roundish. 
The lateral line moderately arched to the end of the dorsal fin, then straight to its termination at the upper 
part of the caudal fin. The anus middle. 
The fins. The dorsal differs remarkably from that of the usual form. There are first two spiculi in front, 
then seven setaceous rays, three of which 1 are nearly the length of the body; to these succeed three spinous and 
eleven ramous rays half an inch long. The pectoral fins long, acuminate in the middle; the ventral shorter, 
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the second ray terminating in a setaceous tail; the anal in shape resembles the hinder portion of the dorsal, but 
narrower; the caudal bifid. 
The colour. The colour stone white, with pale reddish, curve lines, above the lateral line, and straight fillets 
of the same colour under it; the belly and throat-white; the fins a faint reddish yellow. 
The membrane of the dorsal fin remarkably thin and tender. 
* For the Generic Character,*see Vol. I. .p. 71. 
VOL. II. 
