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roftrum 1 the body is of an extreamly lingular figure, approaching to triangular: the 
fkin is hard and firm,and is every-where formed into a Angular kind of hexagonal figures, 
which are ftriated, and have their edges prominent; it has no fpots, but is uniformly 
of the fame brownifh colour : the teeth in the lower jaw are about eight in number, 
and thofe in the upper are eleven or twelve; the lips are moveable, and, in part, co¬ 
ver them; the pectoral or lateral fins are fhort and fomewhat broad; the back fin 
Hands very backward ; the pinna ani is long and low, and the tail is long. 
This fpecies is a native of the American Seas, but we meet with dried fpecimens of 
it very frequently. Clufius calls it, Amply, Pifcis triangularis; Ray and Willughby, 
Pifcis triangularis Clufii cornubus carens. 
Of radon triangulatus totus maculatus ac tuherculofus, aculeis duobus in 
imo ventre . 
The fpotted and tuherculofe triangular Of ration^ with two /pines on the 
belly . 
This nearly approaches to the fize of the former fpecjes : the head is large and ex¬ 
treamly irregularly fhaped ; the eyes are large, and are' covered with the cuticle; the 
covering of the head about the eyes, and principally above them, rifes into a kind of 
eminences refembling eye-brows: the noftrils have each a double aperture ; they Hand 
at about a middle diftance between the eyes and the end of the roftrum : the mouth is 
fmall; there are eight very large teeth in the lower jaw, and twelve in the upper, and 
the whole mouth is furrounded with a kind of lips, that in a great meafure, but not 
entirely, cover them: the body is of a figure approaching to triangular; the Ikin is 
hard and firm, and is all over befet with tubercles at fmall difiances, and has, between 
thefe, brown fpots larger than the tubercles v thefe are round, and all of nearly the 
fame fize : the back of this fpecies is more gibbofe and acute than that of any 
other; the pedtoral fins are broad, and have each eleven or twelve rays; the back fin 
has ten rays; the pinna ani alfo and the tail have each the fame number : the whole 
iifh is of a dufky brown, with a tinge of yellowifh; the tubercles are paler than the 
reft, and the fpots between them are of a reddifh tinge with the brown. 
It is a native of the American; and fome of the Eaftern, Seas, and is fometimes 
fent over to us preferved as a curiofity. Lifter, Ray, and Willughby call it Pifcis me- 
diocris triangularis ad imum ventrem prope caudam cornutus, ex toto maculis squali- 
bus fubrufis denfe infignitus. 
Of radon triangulatus tubercutis hexagonis radiatis y aculeis duobus in 
imo ventre . 
The triangular Of radon, with hexagonal , radiated tubercles 5 and 
with two /pines on the belly . 
This is one of the fmalleft fpecies of this genus: the head is fmall; the mouth is 
very fmall, but the teeth are large and numerous; there are no lefs than eight in the 
lower jaw, and twelve in the upper: the noftrils are very confpicuous; they have each 
a double aperture, and ftand at about a middle diftance between the eyes and the ex¬ 
tremity of the roftrum : the eyes are large, and are covered with the cuticle; the body 
is of an irregularly triangular figure; the back is gibbofe and very acute, and the 
belly is broader than in moft other fpecies: the fkin is very hard and firm; it rifes in¬ 
to a kind of eminences refembling eye-brows on the upper part of the head, and there 
are on each fide two large fpots: on the body it is formed into hexagonal figures, which 
are radiated, and the radiations formed of fmall tubercles, and there are two tranf- 
verfe lines on them : the pedtoral fins have each twelve rays; the ddrfal fin, the pinna 
ani, and the tail have ten rays each. 
This fpecies is brought to us dried, with the others, from the American Seas* 
Lifter, Ray, and Willughby have called it Pifcis triangularis parvus, non nifi imo ven¬ 
tre cornutus. 
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