The natural history of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals . sented, butof the natural size (fig. 66.). These figures will convey to the readera much better ideaof this extraordinarycreature than anydetailed head; but moreespecially the mouthand teeth, are enor-mously dispropor-tionate to the size ofbody; and; indeed, the latter members are larger thanin any other fish yet discovered. There seems also suf-ficient difference between the species known to Catesby,and the Mediterranean one now figured, to justify us inbelieving they are different species : the ab
The natural history of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals . sented, butof the natural size (fig. 66.). These figures will convey to the readera much better ideaof this extraordinarycreature than anydetailed head; but moreespecially the mouthand teeth, are enor-mously dispropor-tionate to the size ofbody; and; indeed, the latter members are larger thanin any other fish yet discovered. There seems also suf-ficient difference between the species known to Catesby,and the Mediterranean one now figured, to justify us inbelieving they are different species : the absence of aterminal spoon-shaped membrane at the tip of the firstdorsal ray in the former may be accidental; but thiscannot be said of the difference in the size and proportionof their scales, or the shape of the caudal fin, which islunate in L. Sloanii, but cleft to the centre of the base inL. Siculus(): in the latter, also, the dorsal fin isinserted much nearer to the pectoral than it is to the ven-tral; but in Sloanii it is just intermediate between thetwo. These fi
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