. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History); Fishes. 1. SALMO. 89 nearly to the hind margin in young examples 7 or 8 inches long. Dentition feeble : the vomerine teeth form a single series, and most of them appear to be persistent to mature age ; they are alternately bent towards the right and left in young examples: teeth on the tongue very small. Fins moderately developed ; pectoral somewhat pointed: caudal fin truncate in mature examples, with the angles pointed ; forked in young specimens, in which the length of the middle rays is two-fifths of that of
. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History); Fishes. 1. SALMO. 89 nearly to the hind margin in young examples 7 or 8 inches long. Dentition feeble : the vomerine teeth form a single series, and most of them appear to be persistent to mature age ; they are alternately bent towards the right and left in young examples: teeth on the tongue very small. Fins moderately developed ; pectoral somewhat pointed: caudal fin truncate in mature examples, with the angles pointed ; forked in young specimens, in which the length of the middle rays is two-fifths of that of the outer ones. Tail not elon- gate, covered with rounded scales, which are a little larger than those of the trunk. There are fourteen scales in a transverse series running from behind the adipose fin obliquely forwards to the lateral S. gallivensis, Bpecimen b, ^ths nat. size. Young, with about nine Parr-marks, with ocellated black and red spots, and with white borders to the anal, dorsal, and ventral fins as in S. fario. Mature females, caught in August, very dark-coloured, with silvery lustre on the lower parts only; sides with rather nume- rous black X-shaped spots; opercles with black spots. Fins black: dorsal with a few small, obscure spots; caudal with an indistinct black posterior margin. A migratory species from Galway, well characterized by the acutely pointed, but not elongate snout, broad, convex head, small eye, feeble teeth, feeble maxillary and mandible, and by extremely thin and short pyloric appendages, the longest of which is 1 inch long, and not thicker than the quill of a pigeon. We received at the same time and from the same locality, through the kindness of Mr. Godraan, some young individuals; but the greater part of thpm appear to be hybrids, probably between this species and S. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these
Size: 1740px × 1436px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorbritishmuseumnatur, bookcentury1900, booksubjectfishes
