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A history of British fishes / By William Yarrell ... Illustrated by nearly 400 woodcuts.

  • William Yarrell
Date:
1836
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Credit: A history of British fishes / By William Yarrell ... Illustrated by nearly 400 woodcuts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BRITISH FISHES. ACANTHOPTERYGII.* PERCID.t THE PERCH. Perca fluviatilis, Linnaeus. Bloch, pt. ii. pl. 52. rf 5 Cuvier et VaLencienngs, Hist. Nat. des Poiss. t. ii. p. 20. Perch, Prnnant, Brit. Zool. edit. 1812, vol. ili. p. 345, pl. 59. sf Donovan, Brit. Fishes, plate 52. re Fieminc, Brit. Animals, page 213, species 142. Generic Characters.—Two dorsal fins, distinct, separated ; the rays of the first spinous, those of the second flexible ; tongue smooth ; teeth in both jaws, in front of the vomer, and on the palatine bones ; preoperculum notched below, serrated on the posterior edge ; operculum bony, ending in a flattened point directed backwards ; branchiostegous rays 7 ; scales rough, hard, and not easily detached. Baron Cuvier has chosen the Perch as representing the type of his first genus Perca, but has separated from that genus, as it was established by Linnzus, several species, * Fishes with some of their fin-rays spinous, the others flexible. t The family of the Perches.