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furnished externally with innumerable teeth, besides an interior row of small crooked teeth. Tongue short, 
blunt, awl-shape, denticulate, hardly moveable. The palate narrow, set with many teeth. The eyes supreme, 
near the rostrum, moderate size, orbicular, prominent. Nostrils double. The branchial opercula rounded, 
without scales ; the membrane half concealed, the aperture wide. 
The trunk. The back slightly arched, roundish; sides convex. Abdomen a little prominent, flattish; tail 
small, roundish. The branchiae denticulate. Lateral line high, straight, loricate. The anus remote. 
The Jins. The dorsal consists of twelve declining rays, and is opposite to the ventral. The pectoral middle, 
short; the ventral of the same shape with the dorsal, but the rays shorter; the anal fin remote, opposite to the 
adipose dorsal, and much smaller than the ventral; the caudal bifid. 
1 he colour a dusky yellowish; the breast and abdomen a dull white. The ventral and anal fins whitish; 
the others a little lighter than the trunk. 
The length of the subject eight inches ; I saw none that exceeded ten. 
REMARKS. 
Though the body, like that of the Smelt, is transparent, and in appearance when boiled resembles the Indian 
Whiting No. CXIII.; it is a very dry and insipid fish. 
This was the only species of Salmon I met with in India; but I find another in Bloch, which he received 
from Tranquebar, and describes under the name Salmo Tumbil. Part X. p. 100. Tab. 430. 
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