THIS 
SCALY CENTRISCUS. 
Generic Character. 
Head produced into a very narrow snout. 
Mouth toothless, with the lower jaw 
longest. 
Gill-Openings wide. 
Body compressed, with carinated abdomen. 
Ventral Jins united. 
Specific Character, &c. 
Reddish CENTRISCUS, with rough, scaly body, 
and strait tail. 
Der Schneppenfisch. 
Bloch, icthth. t. 123. f. 1. 
The Trumpet or Beilows-Fish. 
Will, ichth. p. 160. 
I he scaly Centriscus or Bello ws-Fish is a native 
of the Mediterranean sea, and grows to the length 
of five or six inches: it feeds on worms, and the 
smaller kind of marine insects. 
