. Natural history of the fishes of Massachusetts, embracing a practical essay on angling . e sturgeon of the rivers and ocean, and has the same habitof leaping or vaulting out of water. ACCIPENSER. 121 young, that exhibits a relationship to the stur-geon, and yet, is altogether different. From thecentral part of the plates which characterizethe tribe, are strong, short knobs; a large head,similarly armed; prominent eyes, slender fins, andjaws destitute of teeth. What is most interesting, between the pectoralfins is an oval surface, rather prominent, by whichit appears that the fish has the pow
. Natural history of the fishes of Massachusetts, embracing a practical essay on angling . e sturgeon of the rivers and ocean, and has the same habitof leaping or vaulting out of water. ACCIPENSER. 121 young, that exhibits a relationship to the stur-geon, and yet, is altogether different. From thecentral part of the plates which characterizethe tribe, are strong, short knobs; a large head,similarly armed; prominent eyes, slender fins, andjaws destitute of teeth. What is most interesting, between the pectoralfins is an oval surface, rather prominent, by whichit appears that the fish has the power of adheringto surfaces, like the remora and lump-fish. Thiswas taken in a lobster-pot, by the keeper of theBoston light-house. At a future period it willbe investigated. CLASS II OSSEOUS FISHES. tN THIS DIVISION THE SCULL IS UNITED BY SUTURES. ORDER IV.—PLECTOGN ATHI. GEN- ALUTERES. File Fish.— Aluteres Monoceros, the file fishof Linnaeus, is scooped up in nets, in calms, aboutfifty miles at sea, but under circumstances,however, which render it doubtful whether it THE FILE can safely be denominated a native fish. Itmay be recognised by a bony spine, as one ofthe boundaries, anteriorly, of the dorsal fin, andeight teeth in each jaw. OSTRACION. 123 Our Specimens were obligingly forwarded byCaptain Couthuoy, of Boston, a gentleman towhom our naturalists are under peculiar obli-gations. GEN. OSTRACION, All the individuals of the genus ostracion, seemto be boxed up in a tri-cornered chest, for theirshell is constructed of plates, which unite to forma perfect shield, — in which there are openings toallow the exit of the tail. The tail, fins, mouth,and the branchiae, are the only parts that will ad-mit of motion. Trunk-Fish. — Ostracion Triqueter, inhabitsthe vicinity of Long Island, New York, but rarelymakes its appearance so far to the north as Mas-sachusetts, unless driven on shore by the violenceof storms, — and then it is presented as an emptyshell, three side
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