The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (Volume 1) - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1791. Excerpt: ... XXI. Descriptions of three new Animals found in the Pacific Ocean. By Mr. Archibald Menzies, Fellow of the Linnean Society. Read April 6, 1790. 1. ECHENEIS lineata. Tab. 17, Fig. 1. ECAUDA cuneata, striis capitis decem, lineis albis utrinquc duobus longitudinalibus. Habitat in Oceano Pacifico, inter Tropicos, tejtudini adhœrens. The body of this fish is about five inches long; subulate, smooth, and of a dark brown colour; dotted all over with minute darker spots, and ornamented with two whitish longitudinal lines on each side, which begin at the eyes and end in the tail. The under mandible is a little longer than the upper, and both are furnished with minute teeth. The clypeus on the top of the head has but ten transverse streaks, which is the chief distinction of this species. B 10, P 18, D 33, V 5, A 33, C 14. a. FASCIOLA clavata. Tab. 17, Fig. 2. F. corpore teretiusculo annulato rugoso albido postice gibboso. Habitat in Oceano Pacifico, sœpiiis in ventriculo Scombri Pelamidis. B b 2 This This little animal is about two inches long, having a soft cylindrical body annulated with fine wrinkles; and towards the extremity it becomes spherically gibbose, ending in the anal aperture, and strongly marked with transverse rugœ. About two thirds of its length from this extremity, the ventral aperture protrudes; from which to the mouth it becomes very slender, and on the under fide somewhat depressed. In moving, it fastens itself alternately by the ventral aperture and its mouth, raising its flender neck between them into an arched form like a leech, and in this manner drags its body along with a stow motion. It is of a whitish colour, somewhat pellucid, discharging at its mouth a black-coloured fluid, which can easily be perceived through its body...