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PISCES ABDOMINALES. ESOX. 
The length. The subject described measured two feet two inches; but in the month of September, one was 
caught of four feet eight. 
REMARK. 
It sometimes appears at the English tables, but is not esteemed. 
No. CLXXV. 
Esox maxillis longissimis, sub-equalibus, denticulatis; cauda subluncita. 
The Esox with very long maxillae, nearly of equal length, and denticulated ; a sub- 
lunate tail. 
Esox Belone Linn. S. J\ r . p. 5 1 7 ? 
Called by the Natives Wahlah Kuddera. 
B. xii. D. 2 3. P. 15. V. 6. A. 21. C. 20. 
The body long, straight, roundish, but somewhat quadrate; covered (on the belly particularly) with very small 
scales, smooth, angular-form, tenacious. 
The head small, without scales, depressed above, striate and smooth, compressed on the sides, with a straight 
projecting rostrum, four inches in length, bony, round, sharp-pointed, constituting the two maxillae, of which 
the under is a little longer than the upper; both furnished with a row of straight awl-form teeth, unequal in 
size, sometimes diverging, distant from each other, the interstices filled up by thickset, minute teeth, in several 
rows. The mouth opens widely; the tongue oblong-ovate, small, a little round, and not quite fixed. Palate 
narrow, smooth. The eyes large, oval, near the angle of the mouth ; the nostrils in a groove, on a line with 
the upper edge of the orbit; the posterior oval, the other round; both small. The branchial opercula large, 
rounded; the first lamina squamous, the second without scales, acuminate. The membrane exposed, the 
aperture large. 
The trunk. The back and abdomen almost straight, till where the tail begins to taper at the anal fin; the 
sides convex, the belly below, rather flat; the tail tapers more than the last. The exterior branchiae denti¬ 
culate, the others tuberculate. The lateral line supreme, straight, a little raised towards the end. Another line 
of very small tubercles runs parallel to it, from below the edge of the pectoral fin to the tail. The anus remote. 
The Jins. The dorsal solitary, very near the tail, consists of twenty-three ramous rays, the first ten declin¬ 
ing, sub-falcate, the others short, assurgent. The pectoral fin middle, short, rounded above, assurgent to the 
eighth ray; the ventral ramous, remote, slightly falcate; the anal in shape exactly like the dorsal, to which it 
is opposite, but shorter; the caudal bilobed, somewhat lunate, the upper lobe shortest. 
The colour of the upper part of the head greenish, the cheeks and throat smooth, splendent, silvery. The 
back changeable, dark green and light blue; the sides light, silvery; the belly white: the dorsal, pectoral, and 
caudal fins have a greenish tinge, the others a yellowish-white. 
Length of the subject described, from the point of the under jaw to the caudal fin i n 6 
to the eye - -- -- -- -- -- 047 
flap of the operculum - -- -- -- 065 
ventral fins - -- -- -- - _ 107 
of dorsal fin - - - - ------047 
anal fin - -- -- -- -- -- 045 
lower lobe of caudal fin - -- -- -- -02 4 
REMARKS. 
This, like the former, is an indifferent fish for the table. The bones are green. 
