. The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Fishes. FAMILY, VI—MTLIOBATID^. 74o mches across the disk ff, and six or seven vertical rows. It may therefore be supposed that the number increases with age, and perhaps alters in shape. The band of teeth reach nearly to the angle of the month. Fins—no spine on the tail posterior to the dorsal fin. Golows—of a deep purplish superiorly : white beneath. Amongst Sir Walter Elliot's notes on these fishes is an account of a large female example of this species, 16 ft
. The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Fishes. FAMILY, VI—MTLIOBATID^. 74o mches across the disk ff, and six or seven vertical rows. It may therefore be supposed that the number increases with age, and perhaps alters in shape. The band of teeth reach nearly to the angle of the month. Fins—no spine on the tail posterior to the dorsal fin. Golows—of a deep purplish superiorly : white beneath. Amongst Sir Walter Elliot's notes on these fishes is an account of a large female example of this species, 16 ft. 9 in. across the disk, which at first broke the net but was eventually captured, Oct. 8th, 1850 ; subsequently. May 12th, 1863, a male was taken near the same place 18 ft. 8 in. across the disk. It is observed that only the stump of a tail remained in the female, this appendage being very liable to injury and seldom found perfect in adults. Habitat.—Seas of India to the Malay Archipelago: attaining to 18 feet and upwards across the disk. The example is figured from Jerdon's specimen in the British Museum, 34 inches across the disk. 2. Dicerobatns Kuhlii. Oephaloptera Kuhlii, Miiller and Henle, p. 185, t. lix, f. 1; Bleaker, Amboina, p. 6, and Beng. p. 82 ; Dumeril, Hist. Nat. Poiss. i, p. 654. Bicerobatis Kuhlii, Giinther, Catal. viii, p. 497. Disk more than twice as wide as long: tail not so long as the disk. Body and tail smooth. Teeth— wider than broad : -|-|;||- series, the band ceasing some distance from the angle of the mouth. Colours—brown or greenish. Habitat.—From, the Bast coast of Africa through the seas of India to the Malay Archipelago. Genus, 6—Cbeatoptiea, Mutter and Henle. Head trvMcated anteriorly, free from the pectoral fin, a portion of which latter, however, exists in the form of a horn-like appendage on either side of the head. Mouth wide and anterior. Teeth small and only in the lower jaw. Tail elongated and slender, with a dorsal fin sit
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