PISCES THORACICI. SCOMBER. 
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No. CXLIII. 
Scomber pinnulis dorsalibus tredecem, sex uniiis, septem distinctis; cauda bijurca; corpore 
lanceolato, squamoso ; linea laterali spinosa. 
The Scomber with thirteen dorsal pinnulae, six united, and seven distinct; a lanceolate, 
squamous, body; and a pricldy lateral line. 
Called by the Natives Woragoo. 
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B. vi. D. 7. 14. P. 18. V. 6. A. 2. 12. C. 20. 
The body lanceolate, the scales very small. The head, mouth, tongue, and teeth, as described in the first species 
of this genus. The nostrils divided by a valve. The branchial membrane has six rays only. The back and 
breast, as usual, carinate; the abdomen rather flat; the tail near the fin remarkably small and round. The 
lateral line differs from all the preceding species: after forming a short smooth arch at its rise, it becomes 
straight and carinate, with uncommon prickly, oblique branches going off’on each side. The anus middle. 
The Jins. The first dorsal consists of seven slender spinous rays, the first spine half the length of the second, the 
other five declining; the second fin has nine ramous rays united with six pinnulae; behind which are six or seven 
distinct pinnulae. The pectoral fin very long and falcate; the second anal, in shape like the dorsal, has six 
ramous rays, united with six pinnulae; behind which are five distinct pinnulae. The caudal fin bifid. 
The colour. The upper part of the head and back, a dark green; a large spot of light yellow behind the 
orbit; a smaller of a beautiful changeable colour, on the upper edge of the last operculum; the rest of the fish 
pearl-white. The dorsal fins the colour of the back; the pinnulse yellowish; the pectoral yellow; the ventral 
and anal light, glassy ; the caudal yellowish, with a dusky margin. 
Length, eleven inches. 
No. CXLIV. 
Scomber pinnulis dorsalibus umtis undecem , seu duodecem ; cauda profunde bifida , lobis lanceo- 
latis ; corpore lato-ovato, squamoso; spina recumbens horizontalis ante pinnam prim am dorsi. 
The Scomber with eleven, or twelve, dorsal, united pinnulae; a tail deeply bifid; the 
lobes lanceolate; the body broad-ovate, squamous; an horizontal couched spine before 
the first dorsal fin. 
Called by the Natives Gundi Parah. 
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B. vii. D. T. 21. P. 18. V. 6. A.~ 2. 18. C. 22. 
The body broad-ovate, compressed, covered with small, orbicular scales, close, tenacious. 
The head large, more declivous and less sharp than in any of the foregoing species; without scales, the first 
lamina of the opercula excepted; the front carinate, the rostrum obtuse. The mouth situated low, hardly 
oblique, large; lips thin ; jaws extractile, nearly equal. The teeth in the under jaw and forepart of the upper, 
larger than usual in this genus, conical, a little curve: the rest small, but not acerose. The tongue ovate, 
scabrous, loose; the palate wide, roughish. The eyes middle, near the rostrum, large, round, not protuberant. 
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