The Hiftory of 
ANIMA 
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loweft in the middle : the pinna ani has twenty-four rays; this is very much of the 
figure of the hinder back fin ; the tail is very forked. 
This fpecies is frequent in the Mediterranean. Ariftotle, ./Elian, Athenasus, and Oppian 
call it Ap«; and three of them alfo call it, in other places, as if it were of a 
different fpecies; /Elian defcribes it again alfo under the name of Tpwmi?. The Latins 
in general call it Amia; Ifidore and fome others, Hamia j Willughby, Amia Salviano ; 
Paulus Jovius, Lechia; and many others, Glaucus. Charleton calls it Glaucus major; 
Jonfton, Glaucus veterum ; Gefner, Glaucus major hexacentrus and Glaucus major 
feu prima fpecies. /Elian does not give this fpecies the name of Glaucus, as the other 
Greeks do, for his Glaucus is a fpecies of Squalus. 
Scomber officulo fecundo pinnce dorfalis fecundee altiffmo . 
The Scomber , with the fecond ray of the hinder back fin tallefi . 
This is alfo one of the Scombers which have only the two large back fins, and 
none of the pinnules toward the tail; this is extreamly different from all the other 
fpecies in fhape : the body is broad and thin, and approaches to a rhomboidal form; 
the head is large and comprefled; the back is elevated, and there are three or four re¬ 
markable brown fpots on the fides: the lateral line is nearly ftraight, for the moft part 
of it’s courfe ; the tail is very broad, and is extreamly forked ; fcarce any other fifh has 
it fo much fo : the pe/loral fins have each eighteen rays, and the belly fins have only 
five each : the firft of the two back fins has only feven rays, and thofe very fhort; 
the firft of thefe is bent forwards, the others all turn backward : the hinder back fin 
has twenty-fix rays; the pinna ani has twenty-feven rays, and two of them are 
prickly. 
It is frequent in the Mediterranean: the generality of authors call it Glaucus ; Wil¬ 
lughby, Glaucus primus. 
M U G I L. 
T H E fcales of the Mugil are large, and cover not only the body but the head 
itfelf to it’s very extremity, and alfo the coverings of the gills : the head is 
of a depreffed form in the anterior part, and the body is oblong and compreffed: on 
each fide of the head, below the noftrils, there ftands a little bone, which is ferrated 
on it’s lower part: the eyes are not covered with a fkin, and there are teeth on the 
tongue and palate, but none in the jaws or fauces: the branchioftege membrance on 
each fide contains fix oflicles; thefe are of a crooked figure, and the upper one, which 
is the broadeft, is covered by the coverings of the gills in fuch a manner, that only five 
appear. 
Gf this genus there is but one known fpecies. 
Mugil. . %\je iJJttUCt 
The Mullet grows to about a foot in length, fometimes to confiderably more, and 
is moderately broad, and thick, in proportion : the body is fomewhat compreffed, ef- 
pecially toward the tail: the head is of a roundifh figure, but angulated, and is 
compreffed, in fome degree, in manner of the body behind, but in the anterior 
part it is depreffed ; it’s hinder part toward the back is broad and fiat, not affurgent: 
the anterior part of the back is fomewhat angulated, efpecially toward the head, but 
from the back fin to the tail it is convex and rounded; the belly, from the head to the 
ventral fins, is flatted, but from thofe fins to the tail it is ridged or convex : the mouth 
is extreamly fmall, and, when fhut, the upper jaw is. a little longer than the under* 
and on prefling bends downward; the verge of the under jaw is thin, and of a bright 
red, and at it’s extremity there is a bony prominence, which is received into a cavity 
in the upper ; this rifes from the bone of the lower jaw: the apertures of the noftrils 
are two; they are fituated fomewhat nearer the eyes than the extremity of the head : 
the anterior one on each fide is fmall and round ; the pofterior large and oblong, and 
placed tranfverfely : the eyes are roundifh, and ftand at a diftance from one another 5 
they are fituated near the extremity of the head, and have no covering : the iris is fil- 
very ; the pupil is round and black : the coverings of the gills are hard and bony, and 
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