The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . ith rough scales, and the fins entirely with-out filaments. [Its flesh in little esteem.]Lampris, has a single dorsal very high anteriorly, as also is the anal, which has one small spine before its base; sides of the tail with keels ; ventrals and caudal lobes very long, but subject to be worn away; colour, violet, spotted with white, and the fins red. Inhabits the Arctic seas, and grows to a large size. [In Britain it is known as the Opah, or
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . ith rough scales, and the fins entirely with-out filaments. [Its flesh in little esteem.]Lampris, has a single dorsal very high anteriorly, as also is the anal, which has one small spine before its base; sides of the tail with keels ; ventrals and caudal lobes very long, but subject to be worn away; colour, violet, spotted with white, and the fins red. Inhabits the Arctic seas, and grows to a large size. [In Britain it is known as the Opah, or One dorsal with several spines, the fore- „ most occasionally long, snout much protracted, ^ body compressed, and edges of the back and belly toothed with fins. They are small fishes, several of which inhabit the Indian Ocean, and some of them have the power of contracting the snout when at rest, and projecting it suddenly for the capture of those small fishes on which they , has the snout as in the last, but the body more compressed, the abdomen trenchant and very convex, but the back nearly straight; the ventrals. ?m&^i^
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