. The fishes of North and Middle America [microform] : a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Fishes; Fishes; Poissons; Poissons. hi' ^f 2558 Bulletin //, United States National Museum. OnoB, Risso, Hist. Eur. M6rid., m, 214,1826 (muMteUa = mediterraneut). Muntela, Stark, Elem. Nat. Hist., i, 425,1828 (after le$ Mu$tilet). Motella, CuviER, R^giio Anitn. Ed. 2, vol. II, 334,1829 {vulgarisâ trieirratus). Onus, GOnthbb, corrected spelling. Body rather elongate, covered with minute acales; head not compr
. The fishes of North and Middle America [microform] : a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Fishes; Fishes; Poissons; Poissons. hi' ^f 2558 Bulletin //, United States National Museum. OnoB, Risso, Hist. Eur. M6rid., m, 214,1826 (muMteUa = mediterraneut). Muntela, Stark, Elem. Nat. Hist., i, 425,1828 (after le$ Mu$tilet). Motella, CuviER, R^giio Anitn. Ed. 2, vol. II, 334,1829 {vulgarisâ trieirratus). Onus, GOnthbb, corrected spelling. Body rather elongate, covered with minute acales; head not compressed, th-i upper jaw ihe longer; snout with 2 conspicuous barbels, the chin with 1; teeth on jaws and vomer in bands, palatines toothless; dorsals 2, the anterior ol a single long ray follow^id by a series of short fringe-like rays concealed in a groove; second dorsal and anal long, similar to each other; caudal rounded or lanceolate; ventral rays 5 to 7. Small fishes of the northern seas, descending to deep water. We here regard the 5-bearded Rocklings {Ciliata, Conch, 1832) = Couchia, Thompson, 1856 = MolceUa. Kaup, 1858, as a distinct genus, distinguished by the 5 barbels at the tip of the snout, {yaidpaxfxxpa, a modern Greek name used by Rondelet for a species of this group.) The Vi&raQ yaCdpo^dpov is now applied in Athens to the Pollack-like fish, Micromesiatius poutaasou (RisHo). According to A. Hoffman "the name yaiSovpotfxxpov is modern, meaning donkey fish. rai3ovpoi= = aBH, donkey. The ancients culled a certain fish ovo^, ass. Dorio, in Athenteus, vii, 99, says some pltsous call the ukos (i. e., the fish ovoi) ydSoi. Epicharmns, in his Marriage of Hebe, says: 'Wide-gaping X'^^'^'^^ ^^^ monstrous- bellied ovou' (See Aiistotle 599b 33, GOla 1, 620b 29, frag. 307, 1530a.) According to Aristotle the ovoi has a mouth opening wide (literally, breaking back), like the yaXeoi. It leads a solitary life, is the only fish T7hich has its heart in it
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