The natural history of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals . aseof the pectoral; the anal and dorsal fins terminate half an inch from thetip of the tail, and are there enlarged : the colour is dark fulvous brown,paler towards the belly : the lateral line begins on the top of the crown,and undulates downwards to the pectoral fin, where it reaches the middleof the sides. CAPRISCUS niger. Entirely black; caudal fin even. Second dorsal 33 ; anal 29 or 30 ; caudal 9. Lower jaw with eight teeth, the two middle largest, and with even edges;those on the sides with an obtuse point, c
The natural history of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals . aseof the pectoral; the anal and dorsal fins terminate half an inch from thetip of the tail, and are there enlarged : the colour is dark fulvous brown,paler towards the belly : the lateral line begins on the top of the crown,and undulates downwards to the pectoral fin, where it reaches the middleof the sides. CAPRISCUS niger. Entirely black; caudal fin even. Second dorsal 33 ; anal 29 or 30 ; caudal 9. Lower jaw with eight teeth, the two middle largest, and with even edges;those on the sides with an obtuse point, curved inwards ; pelvis very short,reposing in a groove ; first dorsal spine obtuse, mucronate, the other rayshid in the groove; belly, between the pelvis and the vent, prickly: analfin commencing behind the dorsal, but terminating even with it; totallength i\, and from the snout to the base of the pectoral 1^. From a driedskin, formerly iu the Leverian Museum. LOPHOTES Siculus. Dorsal fin narrow^ of about 120 rays; caudal fin oblique,of seven rays. (^fig. 126.) APPENDIX. 397. During my residence in Sicily, a single example of a fishclosely allied to, if not the same as, the Cepedianus of Cuvier,was captured off Monte Pelegrino, in 1815, by some fisher-men, who considered it such a curiosity, that it was presentedto the king. His majesty caused a painting to be made of it,a copy of which, in water colours, executed by the same artist,is now in my possession. My friend Rafinesque, who saw thefish itself, and through whom this drawing was procured,assured me of its accuracy. A greatly reduced outline is hereannexed. Thefirstdorsalray, or, rather, horn-like process, iSyMketheitof Cepedianus,somewhat three-sided, but the tip is not truncated, but pointed; the dorsalfin is narrower, and tlie rays much more distant from each other; so muchso, indeed, that the drawing expresses not more than 120, whereas tho^in L. Cepedianus are stated to be 230. The caudal fin, in the Sicilian fish,is
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