Date: Sunday f 20, 2012
Long Finned Grey Mullet Sea Fish
The last-cited writer says that in the British Museum there
are five specimens of this species obtained in England. Risso
speaks of it familiarly as existing in the Mediterranean, and it
is found in the Canary Islands, but with us it must be scarce,
as the gorgeous colours ascribed to it by Risso would otherwise
prevent it from being overlooked, and yet no observer on the
coast has recognised it.
According to Dr. Gunther the height of the body is contained
five times and one fourth to five times and three fourths in
the total length, the length of the head five times, snout broad
and depressed, cleft of the mouth more than twice as broad
as deep, eyes with the rudiments of an adipose membrane, a
short lanceolate portion of the chin not covered by the
mandibular bones, (represented as much like that of our Lesser
Grey Mullet.)
Twentyfive scales between the snout and the
spinous dorsal. No pointed scale in the axil of the pectoral
fin. Risso says that the first dorsal fin has four rays, the second
nine, pectorals seventeen, ventrals ten (of which the first is
spinous,) caudal fin eighteen. On the gill-covers are some
beautiful golden spots, the back bluish, on the sides seven
well-marked lines, the belly of a brilliant silver, ventral fin
reddish, anal white, tail light blue.
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