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PISCES ABDOMINALES. MUGIL. 
No. CLXXXII. 
Mugil spinis analibus nullis; capite toto squamoso ; squamis magnis ciliatis; cauda lunata. 
The Mugil without spines in the anal fin; the head intirely squamous ; scales very large 
and ciliate ; the tail lunate. 
Called by the Natives Peddaraki Sovere. 
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B. v. D. 4. 9. P. 19. V. 6. A. 12. G. 18. 
This fish differs from the Mullet in the shape of the body, as well as from the Kunnesee, while it agrees 
with both in many of the principal characters. The scales every where sub-ovate, ciliate, remarkably large, 
tenacious. 
The head is less of an ovate shape, and, as well as the opercula, covered with scales. The upper lip is thickish, 
and the tongue roughish; but the mouth, jaws, palate, nostrils, branchial opercula, membrane, and aperture, 
are exactly as described in the last species. The eyes are of the same form, though placed lower. 
The trunk. The back is more assurgent and arched, and the abdomen a little more prominent, than in the 
last; the sides and tail convex, compressed. The denticles of the branchiae short and soft. The lateral line can 
scarcely be traced. The anus remote. 
The fins. The first dorsal, of four spinous rays, is in the middle of the back where it begins to decline 
towards the tail, and of the same shape as in the last, but not so high; the second dorsal is much more falcate, 
and the two first rays longer, more setaceous; the pectoral fin middle, and also more falcate; the ventral as in 
the last, opposite to the dorsal, but the lanceolate squamae are entirely wanting; the anal, in shape like the 
second dorsal, has no spinous rays ; the caudal large, and lunate. 
The colour nearly that of the Mullet; and a few darkish fillets are visible also on the sides, though less 
conspicuous. 
Length of the subject described, two feet. 
REMARKS. 
In this and the preceding species, as well as in the Mullet, the continuation of the membrane of the dorsal 
fin, gives the idea in the drawing of a fifth ray; nevertheless, all my memoranda concur in the number four 
spinous rays. 
