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This fingular fifh grows to about nine inches in length, and to more than two in¬ 
ches in diameter in the largeft part of the body, which is that near the head * it thence 
becomes gradually fmaller to the tail: the head is broad and obtufej the lower jaw is 
fomewhat longer than the upper : the back is convex; the belly is flat; the Tides are 
rounded, and the colour of the whole fifh is a dufky brownifh-grey : the mouth is 
moderately large, and is very full of teeth; the fins are fix, befide the tail: there are 
two pedloral and two ventral ones, the pinna ani, and the dorfal one, which is fingle. 
The great Angularity of this fifh is in the ftrudure of the upper part of it’s head* 
there are, on the furface of this, twenty-two elevated, rough lines, running in a 
tranfverfe direction, and divided down the middle by one longitudinal one: by ^ineans 
of this ftrudture, the fifh applies itfelf firmly to any folid body that it pleafes * it is 
frequently found flicking to the bottoms of fhips, and often to large fifh, particularly 
to the fhark kind. There have been moft idle and romantic flories of one of thefe 
fifh flopping a vefiel under full fail, by applying itfelf to it’s fide, or flopping a fhark 
in the fame manner, at it’s pleafure : but to name fuch follies is to contradict & them. 
It is frequent in fome of the European Seas, as well as in the American. Ariflotle, 
iElian, and Oppian call it ; and the Roman writers have called it, from them* 
Echeneis ; fome of the later naturalifls have called it Remora and Remeligo; fome 
Iperuquiba, it’s Brafilian name ; and others, Achandus: the bottoms of fhips ftationed 
in the Weft Indies are frequently, in a manner, covered with them. 
CO HYPHEN A. 
T H E head of the Coryphasna is very obtufe before, and runs with a declivity 
almofl perpendicular from the vertex to the mouth : the body is of a deprefied 
form: the fins are feven; one of them, which is fituated on the back, is extended 
from the head to the tail: the branchioflege membrane contains on each fide five 
bones, befide two others, which lie under the bony opercula, and therefore are not to 
be eafily diflinguifhed. ^ 
Corphcena cauda bifurca. 
!The Coryphcena , with the forked tail\ 
3C|)t £>0lpi)ttt. 
This is a very beautiful fifh: it grows to fix or feven feet in length, and the body is 
confiderably thick, though not very broad in proportion: the head is. large, broad, and 
fhort; the roll rum is rounded; the eyes are large ; the noflrils have each two apertures, 
and are fituated a little below them : the body is of a fomewhat depreffed form ; the 
back is broad, and has an elegant fin running along it all the way ; the colour is a 
dufky olive on this part, but on the Tides and belly it is of a filvery white : the pedoral 
fins have each twenty rays; the ventral ones have only fix rays each: the tail is very 
forked, and has eighteen long rays, befides a number of fhort ones at the fides, not 
eafily counted. 
This is a native of the American Seas, and fome other parts of the world. It was 
well known to the Ichthyologifls of all times. Ariflotle and Oppian call it . 
Athensus, ; Ray, Willughby, and moft of the modern, as well as the antient 
Latin, writers, call it Hippurus; others, Lampugo, Equifele, and Equifelis ; fome 
call it Dorado and Aurantius pifcis ; the Brafilians, Guaracapema ; we call it a Dolphin, 
but there is great confufion in the Englifh names ; we call one of the cetaceous fifties 
alfo by the fame name. This is the Dolphin our painters figure, but they do it vilely. 
Coryphcena palmaris , pulchre varia, dorfo acuto, 
The fmall y beautiful , variegated Coryphcena, with a Jharp bach Jfj 
This is a very beautiful little fifh, and is, in it’s general ftiape, as well as in fize, 
extreamly different from the former fpecies: the head is fhort, and the roftrum ob¬ 
tufe : the body is comprefted and moderately broad, in proportion to it’s length; the 
back is ridged, and the whole body is elegantly painted with a variety of colours: the 
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