. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. n Museum. wavy, narrow, longitudinal, cobalt or ultramarine blue streaks, the uppermost along the base of dorsal fin, each streak bordered above and below (the uppermost one borderedbelow only) with pink, a cloudy blackishblotch on lateral line below about 6thdorsal spine ; dorsal greyish or viola-ceous, anal pale bluish, caudal andpectoral rosy, ventrals whitish. In pre-served specimens the streaks becomedark, with more or less distinct lightborders. Locality.—Table Bay, False Bay, andAgulhas Bank to in B
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. n Museum. wavy, narrow, longitudinal, cobalt or ultramarine blue streaks, the uppermost along the base of dorsal fin, each streak bordered above and below (the uppermost one borderedbelow only) with pink, a cloudy blackishblotch on lateral line below about 6thdorsal spine ; dorsal greyish or viola-ceous, anal pale bluish, caudal andpectoral rosy, ventrals whitish. In pre-served specimens the streaks becomedark, with more or less distinct lightborders. Locality.—Table Bay, False Bay, andAgulhas Bank to in British Seventy-four, supposed to deriveits name from the resemblance of thestreaks along the sides to the rows ofguns on an old man-of-wTar, or becauseone was once caught from such a vesselof 74 guns (see Gilchrist, 1902, Tr. Phil. Soc, vol. xi, p. 221), is rarely caught in Table Bay, but is abundant on the Agulhas Bank. The beautiful coloration of this fish is not so vivid in life as shortly after death, when the colours appear in all their Fig. 26.—Outline of head of aspecimen of Dentex undu- 800 mm. in length,showing frontal gibbosityand forward limit of scaling(diagrammatic). Gen. Caranthus nom. nov. 1817. Cuvier, Regne Anim., p. 278. {Cantharus, nom. 1798, and Montf. 1808.) Teeth in front of jaws in broad cardiform bands, becoming narrowerlatterly, the outermost row largest, lanceolate, without canines ormolars. Cheek scaly. Interorbital and limb of preopercle scaly ornaked. Preorbital moderately deep or shallow. Posterior nostrilmore or less slit-like. The tubes of the lateral line short, often appear-ing bifurcate owing to there being two divergent series of poresopening to the exterior ; in microlepis there is only a pair of pores,being the two terminal pores in the divergent series found in otherspecies. Vegetable feeders inhabiting the Mediterranean and west coast ofEurope, and the west, south, and east coasts of Africa
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