Identifier: historyoffisheso04couch (find matches)
Title: A history of the fishes of the British Islands
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Couch, Jonathan, 1789-1870 Lydon, A. F
Subjects: Fishes
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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end of the scaly portionof the tail; half-way also between the first ray of the Ventraland the anal fin, with nine or ten rays, the last double. Thesnout blunt, mouth small, without teeth. Pectoral fins long,reaching nearly to the origin of the ventrals, with sixteen rays.From the vent the body becomes much more slender; anal finwith twelve rays, the last ray double; caudal fin forked, withnineteen rays. That nothing may be omitted as regards this little-knownspecies, I add my notes as taken from an example in mypossession.—The length four inches and three fourths, depthone inch and a fourth at some distance before the dorsal fin;the slope forward, beginning at the furthest third of the pectoral,and descending rapidly forward. Gape narrow, jaws nearlyequal; eyes large and much in front. Body compressed,diminishing backward from the front of the dorsal and fromthe vent. The anal fin begins opposite the termination of thedorsal. Pectorals low; ventrals rather large; scales also large.
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