Second Supplement to the First Edition of the History of British Fishes
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365. REGALECUS. Generic Characters. Greatly compressed and elongated sword - shaped fishes. Teeth minute or none. Dorsal fin rising on the occiput like a plume. Caudal said to be continuous with the dorsal, and to embrace the point of the tail, but seldom seen entire, and of doubtful form in most species. Ventrals uni-radiate and very long, edged with membrane which expands at the end. Branchiostegals seven. A very long slender tapering stomach, of which three-fourths is csecal ; pancreatic cae...ca simple and very numerous. Scales microscopical in the nacry epidermis, also scattered osteoid tubercles in the skin. No air-bladder. IN the Banksian library at the end of a quarto copy of Pennant's British Zoology, published in 1776, is the fol- lowing manuscript note : u On Saturday, the 23rd day of February 1788, was caught near Newlyn Quay, on the sand at ebb-tide, a fish which measured in length eight feet four inches, in breadth ten inches, and thick- ness two inches and a half; its weight was forty pounds.
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